Northern Ireland Opera

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Northern Ireland's award-winning national opera company, dedicated to the highest standards of opera performance and the promotion of young local talent.

A cast grid of nine opera singers, headshots against a variety of backgrounds.
The NI Opera Chorus of around 30 singers are standing on the stage in the Ulster Hall in front of an organ with pipes reaching to the ceiling. The stage and background are dark wood. The singers are all wearing black, with the women in long dresses some with bare arms, and the men in black suits with black shirts. They are all facing the camera in a semi circle with neutral expressions.
Soprano Mary McCabe singing, with her arms raised and to her sides, in front of a female chorus wearing black dresses. Mary is wearing a gown with a design by Sara O'Neill, The Children of Lir, featuring beaded swans, The dress is strapless, with a pale grey silk background a full skirt, a fitted bodice. The colours in the dress are the orange of the swan beaks, and shades of black and purple on the edges of the wings. Mary is on stage in the Ulster Hall, standing on a polished wooden floor. She has dark hair styled up.
Mezzo Jenny Bourke standing on the left with soprano Mary McCabe on the right. They are both wearing strapless gowns with full skirts. Jenny's has a white bodice with loose sleeves and a full cream skirt. Mary's is a very light cappuccino shade and she is wearing a crystal necklace. They both have dark har, styled into loose curls. They are standing in the corner of an ornate room in Hillsborough Castle with red damask wallpaper and a dark mahogany sideboard with artworks in heavy gold frames on the wall.
An image from the top of a rake of theatre seating of the backs of the audience's heads looking at two singers on stage, one in a red dress, one in a blue dress, standing next to a grand piano with a pianist wearing a black jacket and trousers and playing the piano. The background is a curtain with fairy lights throughout it and there's a pop up poster on stage with 'Follies' in gold on a black background. There are spotlights on the singers but the theatre is quite dark as the performance is in progress.