Public Booking For 72nd Wexford Festival Opera opens on 10th May 2023

General booking for Wexford Festival Opera opens on Wednesday 10th May. The 2023 festival promises a packed programme comprising of three mainstage opera rarities, two pocket operas, the Wexford Factory opera, 11 lunchtime recitals, an immersive community opera - a first for WFO, a choral recital with New Dublin Voices, the annual gala concert of festival favourites, film screenings, an impossible interview, the Dr Tom Walsh lecture which asks Are Women Peacemakers?, a myriad of joyous free pop-up events all around the town and an exuberant opening night.

• The programme for the 72nd festival centres around the theme of Women and War, with each chosen work highlighting a different aspect of the struggles women face; in conflict, fighting prejudice and in making their voices heard

The three mainstage operas are:

• A modern premiere of Zoraida di Granata by G. Donizetti 1822 in co production with the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo
• French rarity L'Aube rouge by Camille Erlanger 1911
• La Ciociara 2015, in a new orchestration for WFO by original composer Marco Tutino
• The return of the Wexford Factory - including performances of L'italiana in Algeri
• Pocket Operas/ Opera Beag: La fille du régiment by Gaetano Donizetti 1840 and Suor Angelica by Giacomo Puccini 1918
• For the first time WFO will present an opera which features a professional and community cast, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, set in Wexford and performed in the Grain Store, Wexford.