RTÉ lyric fm celebrates International Women's Day 2024 across the schedule, reflecting on the composers, performers, conductors, presenters, producers (not to mention heroines and queens!) who fly the flag high for women worldwide. In the week leading up to the 8th March, we feature a range of special programmes and features in celebration of Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan.
On Opera Night, The Metropolitan Opera presents Great Met Broadcasts: Verdi's Ernani starring Leontyne Price in a 1962 production from the archives, while in The Lyric Feature, presenter and producer Zoë Comyns pieces together the story of Kate Meyrick - London's Nightclub Queen
Niall Carroll's Classical Daytime will feature 5 pieces by composer Fanny Mendelssohn in Five of a Kind, every weekday at noon. On Thursday 7th March, Liz Nolan brings us a concert from the European Broadcasting Union, featuring world-renowned violinist Liv Migdal and the German Chamber Orchestra as they give new life to the works of female composers in The Full Score with Liz Nolan.
On the day itself, Friday 8th March, Aedín in the Afternoon will fill the airwaves with great music in celebration of women composers and musicians. Wonderful compositions from Amy Beach, Lili Boulanger and Clara Schumann as well as Irish contemporary composers, Anne-Marie O'Farrell, Ailbhe McDonagh and Rhona Clarke. Stunning performances from violinist Janine Jansen, and fiddle players Zoë Conway and Liz Knowles and sensational songs from Annie Lennox, Kate Bush, Lisa Hannigan, Joni Mitchell, Eleri Ward, Ailish Tynan and Imelda May.
And finally, Paul Herriott presents live from the stage of the National Concert Hall in Dublin as the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karel Mark Chichon celebrates International Women's Day with the extraordinary mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as she brings to life some of opera's most indelible heroines in RTÉ lyric Live.
Join RTÉ lyric fm for a week-long celebration of International Women's Day across all our programmes from 2nd to 8th March.