Coming to the Opera House


SPRING HAS SPRUNG!
February



COMEDY
Sat 11 Feb, 2.30 & 8.00pm
The Glee Experience
Calling all Gleeks!!
Following two sold out performances at The Olympia Theatre in Dublin in September, The Glee Experience comes to Cork!
Be part of the club and experience these glittering bunch of Gleesters perform an unforgettable show, jam packed with all your favourite hits.Tickets: Matinee €16 & Evening €21
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available




CONCERT
Sun 12 Feb, 
8.00pm
Alabama 3
Alabama 3 return to Cork with full band for the first time since a sold out show at The Savoy Theatre in October 2007.
Tickets: €25
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available




CONCERT
Mon 13 Feb, 8.00pm
Gavin Friday
Gavin Friday’s career spans four decades, and he still puts the same energy and passion into his work that he did with the Virgin Prunes in 1977.
In 1996 Friday contributed the song ‘Angel’ to the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack and wrote their first score for the Australian film Angel Baby. Subsequent film scores have included The Boxer (1998), Disco Pigs (2001) and In America (2002) and the 50 Cent biopic Get Rich or Die Trying.

Tickets: €26
Booking fee may apply



CONCER, COMEDY
Tues Feb 14, 8.00pm
Let There Be Love
Whether you’re single, engaged, on a first date, a spinster, or married for over 40 years, we have put together something a little unconventional for you this Valentine’s Day.
Let There Be Love is a carnival of events including the greatest love song anthems, tango, the most popular love scenes from your favourite films, ballet, blind date, speed dating, orchestras, choirs, discos, dance and live proposals!
Tickets: €21
Booking fee may apply




FILM
Thurs Feb 16, 8.00pm
Portrait Of An Artist:Myles O’Reilly
Cork Opera House is delighted to present the premiere of a Film by Myles O’Reilly for Carraig Productions and Cork Opera House featuring Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh, Lisa Hannigan, Duke Special and James Vincent McMorrow IN Mitchelstown Caves. The evening will feature a selection of Myles’s creations from his Arbutus Yarns extensive catalogue.
Tickets: €12
Booking fee may apply




CONCERT
Sat 18 Feb, 8.00pm
Mary Black
‘Mary Black in Concert’ in aid of Chernobyl Children International.
For over 25 years, Mary Black has been a dominant presence in Irish music, here and abroad. Mary has released 11 studio albums all of which received platinum sales status. She has shared stages, TV shows and recording studios with some of the most revered performers of her time.
Tickets: €31, €28.50
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available



CONCERT
Sun 19 Feb, 8.00pm
David Pomeranz
David Pomeranz is one of the most succesful and prolific songwriter and recording artists on the scene today. His songs have sold over 35 million copies worldwide and his musical projects have earned him a total of 18 Gold and 22 Platinum Records. Billboard Magazine magazine has referred to him as, "One of our finer voices... and his concerts have delighted and inspired millions all over the world."
Tickets: €31, €51, €61
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available







DANCE
21 Feb, 8.00pm
CoisCéim Dance Theatre presents
Touch Me
Set among the remains of a boarded up room, a group of strangers look in from outside. A set of keys unlocks the door to hidden gems left behind. What was that promise that you made?
Tickets: €20/15
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available


THEATRE
Thurs 23 –Sat 25 Feb, 8.30pm, Half Moon Theatre
A Play On Two Chairs
A Play On Two Chairs is an explosive play about the endless battle of the sexes. An intense and hilarious rollercoaster through the ups and downs of love and lust. Bursting with energy and stretching your emotional spectrum to its max, A Play On Two Chairs will have you on the edge of your seat! (Or cowering behind it).
Tickets: €15, €12 concession
Booking fee may apply



COMEDY
Thur 23rd Feb, 8.00pm
Micheal Winslow
The multi-talented comedian and star of the Police Academy series.
Since the fall of 2008, Winslow has hosted the motion picture television series called "Way Back Wednesday with Winslow" on the cable superstation WGN America, which features movies mostly released in the 1980s. Michael continues to perform stand-up comedy around the globe.
Tickets: €23/21
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available




CONCERT
24 Feb, 8.00pm
Camille O’Sullivan
Camille O'Sullivan enjoys a formidable international reputation for her dramatic interpretations of the songs of Brel, Cave, Waits, Bowie and more. Chameleon-like on stage, each song has a different character with its story to tell.
Irish Times
Tickets: €20/25/30
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available



CONCERT
25 Feb, 8.00pm
Spaghetti Western Orchestra
Five brilliant comic maestros perform classic Ennio Morricone soundtracks from the iconic Clint Eastwood movies The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, For A Few Dollars More and Once Upon a Time in The West recreating every punch up, gunshot, and jangling spur with hilarious effect!
Tickets: €26
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available



CONCERT
Sun 26 Feb, 8.30pm
The Henry Girls
The Henry Girls are fast becoming one of the most talked about folk/roots acts to come out of the North West of Ireland in the last decade.
They are renowned for their fine close harmonies and musical arrangements, and have been likened to many other harmonising siblings such as The McGarrigle Sisters, The Andrews Sisters and The Everly Brothers.
Tickets: €10/12
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available





COMEDY
Wed 29 Feb –Sat 3 Mar, 8.00pm
Brendan Grace
The greatest family comedian of our generation proudly presents 40 years in the Comedy business and most of this time at the very top of his profession.
Tickets: €31
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available


THEATRE
Wed 29 Feb – Sat 03 Mar, 8.30pm, Half Moon Theatre
A New Brain
‘A New Brain’ is a musical written by William Finn. Finn's music score ranges from the hilarious to the ravishing, and all points in between.

Tickets: €15, €12 concession
Booking fee may apply


March



COMEDY
Thur 8 Mar, 8.00pm
Hardy Bucks
Some people say the best thing about Castletown is the road out of it. But ya have to use that road to get back into it as well.
Join Eddie and Buzz along with their kindred spirits 'The Boo' and 'French Toast' for a stage adaptation of their hugely successful television series with RTÉ.
Tickets: €23.50, €21
Booking fee may apply

CONCERT
Sat 10 Mar, 8.00pm
Friends In Low Places: The Garth Brooks Experience

Fresh from a sell-out nationwide tour in 2011 which included Dublin’s Vicar St. ,the INEC and the Waterfront in Belfast, Friends In Low Places better known as The Ultimate Garth Brooks Experience makes it’s Cork debut!
Tickets: €25
Booking fee may apply

COMEDY
13 Mar, 8.00pm
Man 1, Bank 0
Man 1, Bank 0 is Patrick Combs’ amazing-but-true story of how he deposited a $95,093.35 junk-mail cheque into his own bank account and about what happens after his bank clears it. He’s rich – or is he??
Tickets: €25/20 conc
Booking fee may apply


THEATRE
Fri 16 Mar, 8.00pm
The End & First Love
Starring: Conor Lovett
Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett
Tickets: €20, €25
Booking fee may apply


THEATRE
Fri 16 & Sat 17 Mar, 10.30pm, Half Moon Theatre
Play
Play, described as "an assault on itself, on the theatre [...], drama playing against itself," reflects Beckett's affair with Barbara Bray, and the inevitable guilt arising from the intense banalities of an emotional triangle.
Tickets: €12
Booking fee may apply


THEATRE
Sat 17 Mar, 8.00pm
The Beckett Trilogy
Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable are novels by Samuel Beckett. Gare St Lazare's presentations of the novels consist of extracts selected by Conor Lovett & Judy Hegarty Lovett and recited with the kind permission of The Samuel Beckett Estate.

Tickets: €20, €25
Booking fee may apply


CONCERT
Sun 18 Mar, 8.00pm
The Three Tenors

Ireland’s hottest trio Declan Kelly, Morgan Crowley and David Martin will serenade mothers from across Munster this Mother’s Day!
Tickets: €31, €28.50, €25
Booking fee may apply


CONCERT
Tues 20 Mar, 8.00pm
The National Dance Company Of Wales
National Dance Company Wales presents the work of world-class choreographers with twelve international dancers in a programme of spectacle, dynamism and profound emotional expression.
Tickets: €21
Booking fee may apply




CIRCUS
Wed 21 & Thurs 22 Mar, 8.00pm
Moscow State Circus
The Moscow State Circus brings its latest & most Spectacular show to date to the UK with this sensational extravaganza Babushkin Sekret.
Tickets: €23, €27, €31
Booking fee may apply



COMEDY
Fri 23 March, Sat 24, Sun 25, Fri 30 March, Sat 31, Sun 01 April8.00pm
Gift Grub Live 2
After selling over 45,000 tickets across Ireland with the first Gift Grub Live stage production, Mario Rosenstock returns with a totally new show for 2012!
Tickets: €36.50
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available



THEATRE
Mon 26 – Sat 31 Mar, 8.30pm, Half Moon Theatre
Fred And Alice
Fred and Alice is a quirky love story played at a blistering pace.
Fred hasn’t a note in his head but that’s not going to stop him having a music career.
Alice likes words because without words we would have nothing to talk about.
Tickets: €36.50
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available



April

OPERA
Tue 3 April, 8.00pm
La Traviata
The love story that gripped Paris.
Back by public demand.
A tragic tale of searing passion and memorable music, La Traviata is Verdi’s outstanding interpretation of one of the most popular love stories of the 19th century, La dame aux Camelias.
Tickets: €26, €36, €41
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available



OPERA
Tue 3 April, 8.00pm
La Bohéme
Featuring the Internationally Acclaimed
Ukrainian National Opera of Kharkiv.
With handpicked soloists, a highly-praised chorus, and full orchestra.
Tickets: €26, €36, €41
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available



COMEDY
Fri 13 April, 8.00pm
Neil Delamere
Neil Delamere, star of RTE’s The Panel and BBC’s The Blame Game is back in Cork Opera House.
Tickets: €26, €27.50, €29
Booking fee may apply
Limited Early Bird Tickets Available



Cork Opera House booking information
Book online: * www.corkoperahouse.ie
Book by phone:  *021-4270022

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