An Audience With Maria Callas

Produced by Smock Alley Theatre and Once Off Productions

★★★★★ “One of the best pieces of theatre you’ll attend this year”
– The Reviews Hub

★★★★ “Caitríona Ní Mhurchú gives a sharp performance while Conor Hanratty’s intelligent direction allows for seamless retreats into the past”
– The Irish Times

★★★★ “Caitríona Ní Mhurchú’s delivers a top draw Callas”
– The Arts Review

Winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Play.

Passionate, fascinating and supremely talented, Maria Callas remains the pinnacle of operatic stardom. Famous for musical virtuosity, elegance and a sharp temper, Callas was a unique and towering talent.

Terrence McNally’s award-winning play invites an audience in to hear Callas speak in her own voice. Inspired by a series of real masterclasses given at The Juilliard School NY, we encounter Callas’ public lessons about music and performance as well as some of her most private and intimate memories.

To mark the centenary of Callas’ birth, Smock Alley & Once Off Productions are proud to present the Irish premiere of Master Class. Hugely successful on Broadway and the West End, this new Irish production directed by Conor Hanratty will see Smock Alley transformed into an intimate concert space, allowing audiences encounter the magnetism of this great singer up close and personal.

Caitríona Ní Mhurchú will play Maria Callas. The cast includes some of our finest young talent in Leo Hanna, Rebecca Rodgers, Niall Kinsella, Gillian Roberts and Kelli-Ann Masterson who together will conjure those heady days in New York where Callas demands impeccably high standards of her students.

Filled with humour, passion and stories from a legendary career, Master Class is an unmissable celebration of music, theatre and art.

“McNally’s well-crafted, quip-filled drama – which depicts Callas teaching at Juilliard, circa 1971… is less a biography and more a love letter to La Divina”.
–Entertainment Weekly

CAST: Caitríona Ní Mhurchú as Maria Callas
Niall Kinsella, Rebecca Rodgers, Leo Hanna, Gillian Roberts and Kelli-Ann Masterson

WRITTEN BY Terrence McNally
DIRECTED BY Conor Hanratty
LIGHTING & SET DESIGN BY Paul Keogan
COSTUME DESIGN BY Maree Kearns
SOUND DESIGN BY Fiona Sheil