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Wexford Festival Opera 2024 will be one of the biggest of recent years, boasting 70 events over 16 days. Below is our comprehensive guide to everything that is taking place around the Wexford ...
There was double the joy as joint winners were awarded the Young Musicians Bursary Award, created in honour of Music for ...
2019’s Wexford Festival Opera proved why it’s a can’t-miss event for anyone visiting Ireland. Every fall, something quite magical happens in the town of Wexford, which sits at the mouth of ...
Wexford Festival Opera is giving one lucky Irish Times reader the chance to win two tickets to The Magic Fountain by ...
This October audiences across Ireland and around the world will have a chance to experience a taste of the magic of Wexford Festival Opera at home. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this year ...
RTE has announced today that it will livestream at this year's Wexford Festival Opera for the first time, as part of its collaboration with European public service channel, ARTE. The collaboration ...
The annual festival of opera in the tiny town of Wexford is proving so popular that it is raising money for a state-of-the-art venue, reports Jessica Duchen.
To many people back in 1951, it must have seemed a crazy idea. With the encouragement of the writer Compton Mackenzie, a group of music lovers in the small Irish coastal town of Wexford, led by ...
Wexford Festival Opera 2024: This year’s other works Le Maschere, by Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) Pietro Mascagni is famous for Cavalleria Rusticana, his one-act verismo opera from 1890.
Since 1951, the festival has built itself a solid reputation. Now, by extending its theatre into a state-of-the-art venue, it is moving into a different league, says Roderic Dunnett.
Wexford Festival Opera 2007 Der Silbersee by Kurt Weill Anita Dobson as Frau von Luber Jeremy Finch as Baron Laur Photograph ©Derek Speirs Ref WFO 0709 Derek Speirs / Derek Speirs " ...