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Wexford Festival Opera 2023 Review: La Fille du régiment

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) The second of Wexford Festival’s pocket operas, Opera Beag, was a presentation of Donizetti’s opéra-comique “La Fille du régiment.” Operating on a low-budget and using only piano accompaniment, director Heather Hadrill was under no illusions of the difficulties involved. In her program notes, she stated “The challenge of pocket operas is to give as full a sense {…}

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Wexford Festival Opera Announces Directors for 2023 ‘Pocket Opera’ Productions

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Wexford Festival Opera has announced that Heather Hadrill and Grace Morgan have been named as the directors for the “Pocket Operas” of their 2023 festival. WFO received applications from young, Irish or Ireland-based artists to develop stage concepts for the operas. Wexford local Heather Hadrill will direct Donizetti’s “La fille du regiment.” Her directing credits include Handel’s “Acis and Galatea,” {…}

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Wexford Festival Opera 2022 Review: The Master

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) As part of Artistic Director Rosetta Cucchi’s remodeling of the Wexford Festival Opera, the afternoon performances of “opera shorts,” shortened versions of well-known operas played to piano accompaniment, have been replaced by a production for young singers from the Wexford Factory program and “pocket operas,” new or rarely performed operas, aimed at providing members of the Wexford {…}

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English Touring Opera Review 2021-22: La Bohème

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 (Credit: Richard Hubert Smith) Last week the English Touring Opera launched its spring tour. The tour includes “St. John Passion,” Rismky-Korsakov’s “The Golden Cockerel” at the opera’s London home of the Hackney Empire, and a revival of Puccini’s “La bohème.” James Conway’s production will be touring a myriad of venues until early June with Rodolfo, Marcello, Musetta, and Mimi double-cast. {…}