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Maireaed Buicke (1981 in Limerick) is an Irish operatic soprano active in concert and recital work as well as opera. She is currently a Company Principal with the English National Opera and a member of their Young Singers Programme. She started taking singing lessons at 14 and in 2003 graduated from the Royal Irish Academy of Music with a First-class honours degree in Performance. In 2004 she was a special prize winner in the Belvedere International Singing Competition in Vienna as well as winning the Gervase Elwes Cup at Dublin's Feis Ceoil festival. Buicke's performances as the soprano soloist with Ireland's RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra include Mahler's ''Symphony No 8'' and ''Symphony No 4'', as well as RTÉ's eight part television series, "Mozart Sessions". She also sang Mimì in the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra's concert performance of ''La bohème'' (2005) and Gretel in their concert performance of Humperdinck's ''Hansel and Gretel'' (2007). Her other operatic performances have included the title role in William Vincent Wallace's opera ''Maritana'' to celebrate the 275th anniversary of the Royal Dublin Society, and both Pacquette in Leonard Bernstein's ''Candide''〔Anna Picard, (Review: ''Candide'', English National Opera ), ''The Independent'', June 29, 2008. Accessed 28 September 2008〕 (2008), and First Lady in ''The Magic Flute''〔Hugo Shirley, (Review: ''The Magic Flute'', English National Opera ), ''Musical Criticism'', October 2007. Accessed 28 September 2008〕 (2007) for the English National Opera. ==References== *(RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2007-2008 Season ). Accessed 28 September 2008. *RTÉ Television, ("Mozart Sessions" ). Accessed 28 September 2008. *Edel Coffey, ("Mozart gets a sexy new makeover" ), ''Irish Independent'' June 12, 2006. Accessed 28 September 2008. *Pat O’Kelly, (Review: ''Maritana'' ), ''Irish Independent'', June 27 2006. Accessed 28 September 2008. *English National Opera: (Company Principals ). Accessed 28 September 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mairead Buicke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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