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A SPECIAL musical event is set to take place in Teach Cheoil in Kilrush on Saturday, August 8. It comes with news that renowned soprano Regina Nathan will make an appearance at the Grace Street location.
Performing French and Irish show pieces, she will be accompanied by Padhraic O Cuinneagain and the event kicks off at 8pm.
It’s something of a coup for the west Clare venue to secure the sing- ing voice of Nathan and her career in Opera, concert and recital has taken her from her native Ireland across Europe, and as far as Kuala Lumpur and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
She has appeared in opera at Ma-
drid’s Teatro Réal, Brussels’s La Monnaie, the Hamburg Staatsoper, Opéra de Genéve, Luzern Stadttheat- er, Israeli Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera de Nice, Opéra de Nantes, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Opera Zuid, Stadttheater Giessen, as well as Opera Ireland.
Nathan has sung major lyric so- prano roles throughout her career. Her repertoire ranges from the title role in Cavalli’s “La Calisto’ to the world premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage’s “The Country of the Blind’ for the Aldeburgh Festival/English National Opera. Regina has ap- peared as Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Moore’s Baby Doe, Gluck’s Eurid- ice, Verdi’s Violetta, Bizet’s Léila, Offenbach’s Antonia and Amelia in
Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera’. Her portrayal of the role of Puccini’s Cio Cio San in ‘Madama Butterfly’ for Opera Ireland and at the Stadttheater Giessen was hailed with critical ac- claim as was her role of Cleopatra in Handel’s ‘Julius Caesar’ and Norma in Bellin’s ‘Norma’.
“IT have worked with conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Edo De Waart, Kent Nagano, and Frans Bruggen. Mahler’s Eighth Sym- phony has taken me to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Royal AI- bert Hall, and the opening concert of Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall; Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Mo- zart’s Exsultate Jubilate to Brussels and Israel, and Rachmaninov’s The Bells to London’s Royal Festival
Hall.”
A devoted recitalist, Regina’s talents also embrace everything from classic Lieder to traditional Irish song. She has enraptured audiences throughout Ireland, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, the Théatre du Chatelet in Paris and famously with Placido Domingo in a sold out audi- ence at Dublin’s Point Theatre. Her recordings include Britten, Complete Folk Song Arrangements (Hyperion), Mahler’s Symphony No.8 (BMG), Donizetti’s Maria de Rudenz (Op- era Rara) and of course Faith of our Fathers, alongside Frank Patterson. She has also recorded two solo CDs,