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Opera exhibition opens celebrating Limerick’s 200-year-old operatic tradition
Limerick Museum hosting new Opera exhibition as part of Limerick Opera Festival
Limerick Museum currently hosts an exciting new exhibition showcasing Limerick’s 200-year-old operatic tradition as part of Limerick Opera Festival
As part of Limerick Opera Festival, Limerick Museum is currently hosting an exciting new exhibition, Opera in Limerick, showcasing Limerick’s 200-year old operatic tradition.
This exhibition has been curated by Dr Matthew Potter and the Museum staff in partnership with Ger Reidy, Director of the Limerick Opera Festival.
It features objects from the permanent collection of Limerick Museum and items on loan from private collectors.
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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.
Dr Matthew Potter, Curator of Limerick Museum commented, “Limerick Museum has collaborated with Limerick Opera Festival since it was established in 2019 by Ger Reidy. This is the fifth exhibition that Ger and I have held to coincide with the Opera Festival.
“The rich material culture created by Limerick’s long operatic tradition is demonstrated by the sheer number of objects on display from both our own collection and from the numerous private collections of operatic memorabilia held in the city.”
Ger Reidy, Director of the Limerick Opera Festival added, “Established in 2019, the Limerick Opera Festival was created to bring opera to all through a wide variety of live performances, operatic renditions, exhibitions and community events.
“With a splendid operatic history, Limerick had produced many iconic figures of the operatic genre- from European idol Catherine Hayes, to Joseph O’Mara, to (in more recent times) Suzanne Murphy. I want to thank Matthew and his colleagues for working with us in staging this fine exhibition.”
Opera in Limerick is on display in Limerick Museum until 13 June 2025.
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