Northern Ireland Opera’s popular daytime concert series features beautiful performances of opera’s best-loved arias, captivating duets, and timeless songs, alongside some hidden gems.
Directed by Northern Ireland Opera’s Artistic Director Cameron Menzies, ‘Morning Melodies’ daytime concerts are performed by NI Opera artists showcasing principals and also artists from our Chorus Development Programme.

Morning Melodies 

Brian Friel Theatre

Enjoy a pre-show talk before the performances of ‘Carmen’. NI Opera’s Chief Executive and Artistic Director Cameron Menzies will talk about the development of his production of ‘Carmen’, the first time he and the company have staged Bizet’s magnificent and much-loved opera.

Find out more about the creative processes that go in to developing and realising the vision for an opera of this scale and have the chance to see some of the costumes and designs from Northern Ireland Opera’s recent main stage productions up close.

Carmen: Pre-Show Talk

Grand Opera House Belfast

Northern Ireland Opera will bring to life the powerful story of Carmen, a passionate, intelligent woman who dares to challenge convention, pursuing seduction, love and her freedom.

Filled with famous arias including the Habanera and the Toreador song, book now for an evening of fiery emotion in one of best-loved operas ever written.

Carmen

An exclusive evening of fine dining and music in The Seahorse at the Grand Central Hotel.

Book your ticket to experience an evening of operatic performance in the art-deco styled Seahorse Restaurant, where you’ll dine on a three-course menu specially designed by the Grand Central chefs.

NI Opera principals will perform some of the most iconic arias and ensemble pieces from Bizet’s ‘Carmen’, our new production coming to the Grand Opera House from 12 to 19 September with a guest performance by dance duo Augusto and Maeve who will perform a tango duet.

An Evening of Opera

Grand Central Hotel

Step into a world of sweeping music and raw emotion in this beautiful production from Northern Ireland Opera, hailed “undeniably gripping”. Tchaikovsky’s masterful score transforms Pushkin’s novel into a thrilling, heart-wrenching experience. Grand ballrooms, duels at dawn, whispered confessions, and heartbreak echoing across time.

Eugene Onegin

His Majesty's Theatre

This is the 32nd year of the First Church’s Summer Recital Series which runs every Wednesday at 1.15pm throughout July and August, with a free concert showcasing musicians from across the island of Ireland.

Summer Recital Series 2026

First Church Belfast

We’re excited to be back performing live in the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival’s ‘Out To Lunch’ programme with a lunchtime and an evening event.

Cabaret for Lunch & Evening Cabaret

The Black Box Belfast

Composers have used roses as a powerful metaphor for love’s complexities, their delicate beauty and potential to cause pain. Roses also symbolise themes of nature, growth, new beginnings and divine love. We have gathered music from a range of genres, from art song to opera all depicting the intertwined themes of love and roses.

Morning Melodies - 'A Rose By Any Other Name'

‘Morning Melodies’ returns to The Studio after a hugely successful first event earlier this year.  Our October event will feature  soprano Petra Wells, mezzo-soprano Jenny Bourke, tenor Desmond Havlin with pianist Ryan Greer who will be performing some of opera’s best-loved arias, duets and songs along with some hidden gems, directed by Northern Ireland Opera’s Artistic Director, Cameron Menzies.

Morning Melodies

After two consecutive sold-out productions of ‘La Traviata’ in 2022 and ‘Tosca’ in 2023, Northern Ireland Opera returns to the Grand Opera House in September 2024 with Tchaikovsky’s stunning operatic masterpiece, ‘Eugene Onégin’.

Eugene Onégin

Enjoy a performance of some of opera’s best-loved arias, duets and songs along with some hidden gems, directed by Northern Ireland Opera’s Artistic Director, Cameron Menzies.

Opera at The Court House

The Court House

The Northern Ireland Opera Chorus perform an evening of opera choruses, from much-loved and well-known works and lesser known gems.

Comprising more than 30 opera singers from Northern Ireland, the NI Opera Chorus are selected from open auditions in Belfast and spend six months working with the national opera company for Northern Ireland in an acclaimed artist development programme.

Cameron Menzies

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