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Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Composer Marco Tutino On The Production Of His Opera ‘La Ciociara’ At This Year’s Wexford Festival Opera

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One of the headline operas for this year’s Wexford Festival Opera is Marco Tutino’s 2015 work “La Ciociara,” written for San Francisco Opera. The opera is based on Alberto Moravia’s 1957 novel, which was later turned into a film directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Sophia Loren, for which she won an Oscar for best actress. The film now {…}

News

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,” {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Conductor Francesco Cilluffo On Wexford Festival Opera & Cilea’s ‘Gloria’ In Cagliari

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Photo: RibaltaLuce Studio The Turin-born conductor Francesco Cilluffo sees himself at home in both the Italian and English-speaking worlds. Having graduated from the city’s Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire and then the University of Turin, where he completed a thesis on Benjamin Britten, he moved to London, where he studied at the Guildhall School of Music before going on to King’s College, {…}

Business, News

Paul Cleary Appointed Chairman of Wexford Festival Trust Board

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Wexford Festival Opera has announced that Paul Cleary has been appointed as its new Chairman of the board of Wexford Festival Trust, effective this month. Cleary has volunteered with WFO for nearly 40 years in various administrative and artistic roles. He joined the board of the Wexford Festival Trust in 2014, and served as Vice Chairman from 2016-18; currently, he {…}

Business, News

Wexford Festival Opera Receives Increase in Funding from Arts Council

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Wexford Festival Opera has been allocated €1.68 million in strategic funding from the Arts Council for 2023. The money allocated in 2023 is an increase of 3 percent or €45,000 from 2022. The Opera Festival is one of 107 arts organizations throughout Ireland sharing in more than €50 million in financial support, from theatre, music, and visual arts to literature {…}

News

Claudia Boyle, Konu Kim, Giorgi Manoshvili, Na’ama Goldman, Jade Phoenix Headline Wexford Festival Opera’s 2023 Season

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The Wexford Festival Opera has announced its 2023 season which will include 70 events across 13 days. Entitled “Women and War,” the season will kick off with three mainstage opera productions. First up is Donizetti’s “Zoraida di Granato” starring Claudia Boyle and  Konu Kim. Bruno Ravella directs with Diego Ceretta conducting. The production will be presented in a co-production with {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2022 Review: Armida

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(Photo: Clive Barda) Of Dvorak’s 10 operas, only “Rusalka” receives regular stagings outside his Czech homeland. Listening to the recordings of his other operas, it is not clear as to why this should be the case. Certainly, the dramatic quality of the music is strong and contains plenty of engaging melodies, and they would certainly bear comparison with many operas {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2022 Review: Lalla-Roukh

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(Photo: Clive Barda) For this year’s Wexford Festival Opera, its artistic director, Rosetta Cucchi, decided upon “Magic & Music” as its defining theme. As an umbrella term, it gives plenty of scope for selecting the operas for performance. The term can be applied narrowly, restricted to spells, wizards and witches, or more widely, bringing in fairy tales, legends, myths, ghosts, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2022 Review: Cinderella

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) One of the attractions for the young singers participating in Wexford Festival Opera’s Factory program is the chance to perform on the main stage in an opera in front of a large audience. Last year, they starred in a very successful production of Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” which featured such artists as Jade Phoenix and {…}