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Opera Lecture with Ian Fox
Date: 2nd September
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Hotel
Time: 8pm

Rigoletto by Verdi
This was the first opera of Verdi’s “middle period” which produced his most popular works. Its combination of melodic richness and dramatic effectiveness has proved irresistible.

Samson et Dalila by Saint-Saëns
Because of its biblical subject, the opera was banned by the French Authorities and was first produced in Germany. A popular favourite in the world’s opera houses, it attracted many of the leading opera singers of the day.

Ian Fox

Ian Fox has pursued parallel careers in marketing and music. For 40 years he worked in advertising and marketing.

He has been a Unilever Brand manager and Accounts Director in leading national and international Advertising Agencies, including McConnells and Saatchi & Saatchi.

He was Director General of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland, and a member of the Board of the European Association of Advertising Agencies, before taking early retirement 5 years ago.

He started broadcasting on RTE in 1969 and for over 20 years chaired the quiz programme “Top Score”. He has also written and presented many music programmes on TV and Radio. Currently he presents "The Lyric Collection", now at 7 pm each Friday evening on RTE Lyric FM.

For twenty years he was Music Critic of the Sunday Tribune and has been writing the Programme Notes for the National Symphony Orchestra and the National Concert Hall for over 15 years. He is Irish correspondent for "Opera" Magazine (London).

He is a member of the Council of the Wexford Fetsival, and wrote a history of the Festival in 1991, and is a Board Member of the Axa Dublin Piano Competition.

June 2007

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