Chanticlear Irish Tour 2009

Venues
St Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway.
The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas is the largest medieval parish church in Ireland in continuous use as a place of worship at the heart of Galway's life. A tour through the Church will allow you to glimpse the part of its rich history. You will see signs of the iconoclasm of the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell. But by contrast, should you visit during one of the many acts of worship you will see and hear the present day richness of the liturgy where sound and colour fill the delightful medieval building. Perhaps such present day liturgies are not that far removed from the sights, sounds and perfumes that graced St Nicholas centuries ago.

Saint Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin.
St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral is situated on Dublin’s North side in Malborough Street. The church which serves as the Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin was constituted in 1825 from Saint Mary’s Chapel Liffey Street, whose pre-Reformation monastic antecedent was the Cistercian Abbey of Saint Mary’s founded in the twelfth century. The present church is built on a site that was part of the ancient monastic foundation. The church was dedicated on 14th November 1825, the Feast of Saint Laurence O’Toole, Patron Saint of the Archdiocese of Dublin under the patronage of the “Conception of the Virgin”...

Wexford Opera House
Wexford Festival Opera was founded in 1951 and has built an unrivalled reputation for excellence in opera... "One of the pleasures of attending the festival is the chance to hear talented young singers who aren’t yet well known on international stages. There were several standouts this year: Bryan Hymel who in recital revealed a beautiful upper range; Czech mezzo Kate?ina Jalovcová a major find as Ježibaba in Rusalka: and the superb Welsh baritone Paul Carey Jones, who sparked a ‘bonus’ staging of Donizetti’s comic gem Rita”