A summer celebration for volunteers from Wexford Festival Opera and the National Opera House took place recently.

New Dublin Voices. Jeremy Dibble Bach at Midnight. Performers on stage during the gala concert during Wexford Festival Opera 2023. Photo: Padraig Grant Since its inception in 1951, the Wexford ...

Photo: Michael Savage This has been the pattern ever since – three unusual or even positively obscure operas staged at the Wexford Festival Opera, which takes place in the autumn in a town with ...

It was the critic and opera- lover Bernard Levin who, quoting a friend, dubbed Wexford Festival Opera, "the world's best children's party for adults". Under Elaine Padmore, who advanced the ...

A small, picturesque port founded by the Vikings, Wexford is the setting for an annual festival of opera that, since its foundation in 1951, has focused entirely on the rarest of rare repertoire.

Home to Wexford Opera since its founding in 1951, as the festival grew so the theatre’s limitations of capacity and facilities became ever more of a hindrance. When it became clear an alternative was ...

Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Mary Hanafin, T.D. will officially open the 59th Wexford Festival Opera on Saturday, October 16 on Wexford's Quay front at 7pm, with the traditional ...

The Board of Wexford Festival Opera has announced Rosetta Cucchi as the new Artistic Director of the Festival. She will take up the six-year position when the current Artistic Director David Agler ...

The Prague Chamber Choir has been coming to the Wexford Opera Festival since 1990 - and now the daughter of two of its singers has a 'beautiful Wexford accent'. Some of the choir members talk to ...

Wexford Festival Opera began in the unlikeliest of places and times: a rural town in 1950s Ireland. To set itself apart, the festival looked to introduce audiences to neglected or forgotten operas ...