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National Opera House & Wexford Festival Opera Announces Investment in Lighting Equipment

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The National Opera House and Wexford Festival Opera have announced a major investment in new stage lighting equipment for the O’Reilly Theatre in Wexford, Ireland. The package features moving light fixtures from Robe Lighting, a manufacturer of professional lighting technology. Per an official press release, the fixtures offer color consistency, high output performance, and extensive automated functionality. The equipment will {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Suzanne Nance on Becoming Wexford Festival Opera’s New CEO

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(Photo: AJ Coots) When I was asked to interview Wexford Festival Opera’s new CEO, Suzanne Nance, my thoughts immediately turned to balance sheets, profit forecasts, marketing campaigns, contracts, fundraising and staffing issues. I must admit that it did little to set the pulse racing. However, it turned out be a very different experience than expected. While such issues were touched {…}

News

Wexford Festival Opera Announces Partnership with British Airways

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(Credit: © CLIVE BARDA ArenaPAL) The Wexford Festival Opera has announced a new partnership with the airline, British Airways. Under this new partnership, British Airways will be the Festival’s official airline and production sponsor for Mascagni’s “Iris,” the highly anticipated production that will open the 2026 Festival on Oct. 15 in Wexford’s National Opera House. Beyond the stage, British Airways {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2025 Review: Deidamia

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) In 1752, Händel’s final complete composition, his oratorio “Jephtha,” was premiered at London’s Covent Garden Theatre, bringing to an end the composer’s illustrious career. Just over ten years earlier, he had premiered his opera “Deidamia” at London’s Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, in what proved to be another significant landmark; it was to be the last of his {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2025 Review: Il Viaggio A Reims

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) The Wexford Factory Academy is a program offering young singers the opportunity to take part in workshops, masterclasses and performances in the weeks leading up to and during the festival. The highlight of the program is a fully staged production on the festival’s main stage, in which all the roles are performed by the Factory singers. The {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2025 Review: Le Trouvère

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” premiered at Rome’s Teatro Apollo in 1853 and proved to be an immediate box office success that led to further productions across Italy, Europe, and the Americas. Following its Parisian premiere at the Théâtre Italien in 1854, Verdi was commissioned to adapt it for a production at the city’s Opéra, which required changes to {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2025-26 Review: The Magic Fountain

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) Interest in Frederick Delius’ operas has never been particularly high; even his best-known opera, “A Village Romeo and Juliet,” receives only the occasional performance. Wexford Festival Opera‘s decision to stage a production of “The Magic Fountain,” his second of six operas, written between 1893 and 1895, was therefore a welcome, if not a surprising, choice for the {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2025-26 Review: Der Zwerg

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) As well as its featured operas, the Wexford Opera Festival also puts on an array of other events, including performances of its “pocket operas,” that is, short works or abridged versions of larger works, sung to a piano accompaniment, presented in the smaller Jerome Hynes Theatre, rather than on the theatre’s main stage. One of the “pocket {…}

News, Season Announcement

Wexford Festival Opera Unveils 75th Anniversary Season

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Wexford Festival Opera announces it 2026 season. This article only features opera events. Main Stage Operas First up is Pietro Mascagni and Luigi Illica’s “FIris.” Rosetta Cucchi directs and Francesco Cilluffo conducts. Performance Dates: October 15, 20, 23, 28, & 31, 2026 “L’equivoco stravagante” by Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Gasbarri is next. Max Hoehn directs. Riccardo Bisatti conducts. Performance Dates: October {…}