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Music | Hospitality packages released for Ennio Morricone’s show at The O2 Dublin

A limited number of hospitality packages for Ennio Morricone’s hugely anticipated O2 concert on Friday 12 December have just become available. These packages include best seats in the house, champagne reception plus dinner at The Gibson Hotel via CSL Hospitality here.

The Oscar and Grammy Award winner will conduct a one hundred piece Orchestra with Soloists plus a choir of seventy-five voices.

Ennio Morricone was born in Rome in 1928. His long artistic career includes a wide range of composition genres, from absolute music, which he has always produced, to applied music, working as orchestrator as well as conductor in the recording field, and then as a composer for theatre, radio and cinema.

Since 1960, Ennio Morricone has scored over 400 films working with many Italian and international directors (among whom Sergio Leone, Gillo Pontecorvo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuliano Montaldo, Lina Wertmuller, Giuseppe Tornatore, Brian De Palma, Roman Polanski, Warren Beatty, Adrian Lyne, Oliver Stone, Margarethe Von Trotta, Henry Verneuil, Pedro Almodovar and Roland Joffè). His most famous films include: The Battle Of Algiers; Sacco and Vanzetti; Cinema Paradiso; The Legend Of 1900, Malena; The Untouchables, Once Upon A Time In America; The Mission and U-Turn. His absolute music production includes over 100 pieces composed since 1946 to this day. Here are some titles: Concerto per orchestra 1 (1957); Frammenti di Eros (1985); Rag in Frantumi (1986); Cantata per L’Europa (1988); UT, per tromba, archi e percussioni (1991); Ombra di Lontana Presenza (1997); Voci dal Silenzio (2002); Sicilo ed altri Frammenti (2006); Vuoto di Anima Piena (2008).

Tickets for the show are priced €86 / €106 / €131 / €156 including booking fee via Ticketmaster.ie and all Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.