Opera Singing Waiters
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Opera Singing waiters in Ireland is led by the Event Award Nominees The Opera Singing Waiters.
“The show-stopping Opera Singing Waiters brought the house down.”Sky News, World Ladies’ Golfing Championships.
The key to the success of The OPERA Singing Waiters is the element of surprise. The performers are already amongst the guests posing as waiters pouring their wine and acting as hotel management during the food service. Mario the Italian waiter has been pouring wine at the tables, occasionally bursting into phrases from opera for the delighted guests. “In Italy, when we pour the wine, we sing!” he explains, in broken English. Simon, as the Banqueting Manager, tells him off when ever he does this.
From: Shirley Hyde
Date: 22nd october 2011
Subject: singing waiters
Hi Suzy can you send our greatest thanks on to the singing waiters all I can say is wow, they were the highlight of our day and infact most of everyone’s x
Shirley Hyde.
Cast of characters:
Niall Morris: (formerly The Celtic Tenors) as Mario the Italian waiter
Donna Malone: (Ireland’s highly gifted young soprano) as Lia the waitress
Simon Morgan: (of The Keynotes) as The Banqueting Manager
Testimonial
From: Anne Hegarty
Date: 24th September 2011
I just wanted to write and thank the Opera Singing Waiters so much for their incredible performance at our son’s wedding on September 24th at Ballyvolane House Castlelyons. They were an absolute WOW and people were simply bowled over by them. The surprise element caught everyone off-guard and people are still talking about them..
Thank you again..
Anne.
Then, while Simon attempts to make a general announcement to the guests over the microphone, Mario suddenly grabs hold of it and starts to sing O SOLE MIO at the top of his voice. He finishes by standing on a chair waving his napkin in the air, to much applause!
Suddenly, not willing to allow himself to be upstaged by a waiter! The Banqueting Manager decides to join in and starts to sing too. Culminating in a crescendo with both singers holding the highest note for as long as they can, but in the end there can only be one winner. Which of course is Mario the singing waiter!
Upon hearing many calls from the guests for an encore, Mario agree’s to sing the Opera classic Nella Fantasia. But, makes it known that at some point during the song he will need a female vocalist to join in with him. While singing, he approaches many of the guests, as well the as waiting staff to join in but to no avail. Until suddenly, under duress, a beautiful young waitress named Lia agrees to sing with Mario during the song. and much to the surprise of all the guests “enters” the highly gifted young Soprano Donna Malone to rapturous applause from all of the guests that will bring the house down!
The Opera Waiters recently performed to great acclaim at the Ritz Carlton, Powerscourt for the KMPG convention and for the Failte Ireland conference in Limerick. Catch them now and surprise your guests in a way that will have everyone talking for a very long time.
Repertoire
- O Sole Mio
- New York, New York
- Nella Fantasia
- O Mio Babbino Caro
- Time to Say Goodbye
- Libiamo – La Traviata
- Stand up and Fight
- Granada
- Quendo M’en Vo
- Nessun Dorma – Turandot
- La Donna e Mobile
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Ireland’s Call
Testimonials
From: AOIFA, Corporate Event – Una Whelan
Date: 09th October 2011
Subject: The Opera Singing Waiters
Just to let you know that the Opera Waiters were a total wow at our Breakfast on Sunday, everyone thoroughly enjoyed them and were in total admiration of their performance. All the delegates and ourselves were totally mesmerised with them, it was a very special occasion and a very fitting end to a great weekend – some described it as the “icing on the cake”. I had met Niall before when he was with the Celtic Tenors and was delighted to meet him again in this role which he played with such panache, and Anna was superb and has a wonderful voice she has a bright future ahead of her.
I know several people took brochures and I know that there will be a couple of bookings over the coming months.
Kind regards
Una
Una Whelan.
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From: dawn williams
Date: 7 December 2009 15:31:14 GMT
Just wanted to let you know that Michael’s Surprise 40th on Saturday night was a huge success. The Spanish Guitarist started it off wonderfully and The Opera Waiters completely stole the show!
Nobody had ever seen them before and they were completely bowled over by them.
From: “Sarah Doherty>
Date: 23 November 2009 09:40:37 GMT
Just back in the office today – cant believe it is all over – we had a terrific day and the Singing Waiters really topped it all off – they were AMAZING!!
I have already had the Hotel onto me looking for your details as they have a couple interested and I am sure that other guests will be on in time asking the very same. They really were first class!!
Please pass on mine and Jeffs thanks to both of the guys – we are really looking forward to seeing the videos and pictures to appreciate it all over again!
Many thanks
Sarah
From: Diane Mc Auley <
Date: 14 September 2009 22:24:24 IST
Just a quick email to say thank you. The singing waiters were fanatstic for our wedding All the guests are still talking about them. There singing was out of this world. They are so talented. They went down a treat and got a standing ovation at the end. Will you give them our thanks,
Kind Regards,
Diane and Kieran
From: “Cathy Talbot”
Date: 3 November 2008 11:08:51 GMT
We had a fantastic night! It was unbelievable….
The highlight of the night were the Opera Singing Waiters….they went down brilliantly – everyone is still talking about them and I’ve no doubt but they will get some bookings from this gig.
The drummers were equally as good and so obliging and went down a storm. Their act is fantastic!I would like to thank you for all your help and hopefully we will work together at some stage in the future!
Thanks again for helping to make this night a big success!
Regards,
Cathy
From: O’Donoghue, Denise M.
Sent: 03 November 2009 12:55
Just wanted to provide some feedback on the Singing Waiters. We had our wedding in Dromoland in Claire. Although, initially we considered them over our budget, we were so glad that we went for them in the end. All of our guests absolutely loved them and they really added to our day. Would recommend them to anyone, if you want a WOW factor, then you got it with these guys. People are still talking about them.
Appreciate if you could relay the message to the singers.
We had the opera waiters at my sisters wedding in Faithlegg last Saturday.
I just wanted to e-mail you and tell you they were absolutely amazing ! Out of this world……they were most definitely the highlight of the day and everyone loved them !Please pass on our heartfelt thanks to them for making Helen’s and Marc’s day so special.