Programme Details Announced For Wexford Festival Opera 2019

Artistic Director of Wexford Festival Opera, David Agler has today announced details of this year's Festival. There is a distinctly Irish flavour to the programme featuring not just one, but two Irish composers on the O'Reilly Theatre stage of the National Opera House including the world-premiere of a newly-commissioned opera by Irish composer Andrew Synnott, La cucina, and a concert version of The Veiled Prophet by the Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford, to be conducted by David Brophy, presented in association with Heritage Music Productions, headed by international pianist and Irish music specialist Una Hunt, and supported by a grant from The Arts Council. La cucina will be presented as a companion piece to one of Gioachino Rossini's lesser known operas Adina. This year's programme will also feature the first Baroque opera to be performed at WFO in over 30 years, Dorilla in Tempe by Antonio Vivaldi. The Festival will continue its long association with Massenet, presenting its 10th opera production by the French composer, Don Quichotte.

Once again audiences are encouraged to experience a taste of Wexford with the daytime ShortWork productions, which this year will feature Le Docteur Miracle (Doctor Miracle) by Georges Bizet, Cendrillon (Cinderella) by Pauline Viardot and L'inganno felice by Gioachino Rossini.

The annual Dr Tom Walsh Lecture this year will be an 'in conversation' with two women closely connected to the Festival's past, present, and future. Elaine Padmore (Artistic Director 1982-1994) and Artistic Director designate Rosetta Cucchi.

The 68th Wexford Festival Opera will open on Tuesday, 22 October and run for 13 consecutive days, closing on Sunday, 3 November.

Priority booking for Friends of Wexford Festival Opera (Ensemble+, Aria, Cabaletta and Bravura Friends) opens on Saturday, 23 March, for all other Friends of the Festival on Saturday, 30 March, and general booking opens on Saturday 13 April at 9:30 a.m.

For full programme details go to wexfordopera.com

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