The Great Christmas Concert 2024

The Lassus Scholars
Piccolo Lasso
The Orlando Chamber Orchestra (Leader: Gillian Williams)
Ite O’Donovan (conductor)

Special Guest Soloist:  Orla Boylan, soprano

Feis Ceoil Prizewinners 2024 
Adam Buttimer, tuba 
Sarah Brazil, violin 
Yasmin O’Reilly, mezzo-soprano

Alfredo Catalani: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana - from Wally
Giacomo Puccini: Un bel di - from Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini: Gloria - from Messe di Gloria (abridged version)
C. P. E. Bach: Magnificat (1st movt)
Handel: Hallelujah Chorus 
Vincenzo Bellini: Se Romeo t’uccisi un figlio – from I Capuleti e I Montecchi 
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Romanza – 2nd Movt from Tuba Concerto
Jules Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs
Audience Carols

For over 25 years audiences have made The Great Christmas Concert the start of their Christmas Season! Not only will you experience the joyful and uplifting sounds of the voices of children in Piccolo Lasso combined with their adult colleagues in The Lassus Scholars - all blended together with the Orlando Chamber orchestra - but you will also have the opportunity of uniting your voice with theirs as conductor Dr Ite O’Donovan invites you to join in the audience carols!

The programme of festive music includes Christmas favourites from O Holy Night to Jingle Bells; choruses and arias by C.P.E. Bach, Puccini, Bruckner MORE and Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.

Presented by Dublin Choral Foundation