National Concert HallRoom: Main Auditorium Prices: €45, €38, €25, €18(Choir Balcony) 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Booking at National Concert HallwithHelena Dix, sopranoNeal Cooper, tenorRachel Croash, sopranoJohn Gibbons, conductorVivian J. Coates, director and designerTHE LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA With standing ovations for Mozart by Candlelight last October, Lyric Opera brings heartfelt passion and emotion from some of Puccini’s best loved operas. Puccini travels the globe with his settings for many of his operas, from Paris to the Wild West and across to China and Japan, He captured the exotic, bringing East and West in a Kaleidoscopic fusion of passion which has enthralled the world for the last hundred years. Each of Puccini’s operas is exquisitely created delving into the fragile emotions which he spent so long in developing for each of his character.Starring in this extraordinary concert is rising Australian star, Helena Dix, the sensation at Wexford Festival Opera in 2013 and direct from Covent Garden, principal tenor, Neal Cooper.Full ProgrammeLa Fanciulla del West Prelude Edgar Addio mio dolce amor Manon Lescaut Donna non vidi mai Suor Angelica Senza mamma, o bimbo Manon Lescaut IntermezzoLa Fanciulla del Wes t Ch’ella mi credaLa Bohème Quando m’en vo La Bohème Si, Mi chiamano Mimi O Soave FanciullaMadama Butterfly Intermezzo & Humming Chorus Un bel di vedremoIl Tabarro “O Luigi, Luigi” Crisantemi Turandot Nessun DormaTosca Visi d’arteGianni Schicchi O mio babbino caroLa Fanciulla del West IntroPre-Concert Introduction by George Fleeton in the Carolan Room at 7pm Presented by Lyric Opera Productions