Opera in Limerick, an exhibition showcasing Limerick’s 200-year old operatic tradition, as part of Limerick Opera Festival.
This exhibition has been curated by Dr Matthew Potter, Curator of Limerick Museum and Ger Reidy, Director of the Limerick Opera Festival of which it forms part. It features objects from the permanent collection of Limerick Museum and items on loan from private collectors.
They demonstrate the high quality of Limerick’s musical life over the past two centuries and remind us of some of the great venues that the city boasted such as the Theatre Royal on Mallow Street, which flourished for eighty years from 1840 to 1920 and the Savoy Theatre on Bedford Row, one of Ireland’s greatest cinemas and theatres for most of the twentieth century.
The exhibition shows how Limerick punched above its weight in the world’s musical culture in the past 200 years.
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