List_of_operas_performed_at_the_Wexford_Festival

List of operas performed at the Wexford Festival

List of operas performed at the Wexford Festival

List of the operas performed by Wexford Festival Opera since its inception in 1951

Below is a complete list of the operas performed by Wexford Festival Opera since its inception in 1951 (73 years ago) (1951). Only complete operas presented on stage with orchestra are listed; over the years, the Festival has also presented programmes of scenes from operas and one-act operas with piano accompaniment.

The Theatre Royal during the Wexford Opera Festival

Nearly all the performances listed took place at the Theatre Royal, Wexford or (from 2008) at the new Wexford Opera House. After the demolition of the Theatre Royal and during the building of the Opera House, the 2006 season operas were performed at the Dún Mhuire Theatre in Wexford, and the 2007 operas at Johnstown Castle, a few kilometres outside the town.

The Festival has been led by the following Artistic Directors:

  • 1951–66: Tom Walsh
  • 1967–73: Brian Dickie
  • 1974–78: Thomson Smillie
  • 1979–81: Adrian Slack
  • 1982–94: Elaine Padmore
  • 1995–2004: Luigi Ferrari
  • 2005–2019: David Agler
  • 2020–present: Rosetta Cucchi

List

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Sources

  • Creative teams and singers for seasons 1951–2007: Lewis, Kevin (2008). What the Doctor Ordered: an Encyclopedia of Wexford Festival Opera since 1951. Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84588-597-7.
  • Creative teams and singers for the 2008–2012 seasons: the programme books for those years.
  • Chronological list of operas: the 2012 Wexford Festival Opera programme book.
  • "Operas Performed at the Wexford Festival, 1951-1972". Opera, Autumn 1973, Festival Issue, pp. 18–21.
  • The Programme Books for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022

Notes

  1. [1]
    Year that the opera was performed during the Wexford Festival
  2. [2]
    Language used in the opera's original libretto
  3. [3]
    Where two designers are credited, the first-named designed the set and the second designed the costumes
  4. [4]
    Performed in Italian translation
  5. [5]
    Porter, Andrew. The Wexford Festival. Opera, December 1963, Vol.14 No.12 pp. 828–831.
  6. [6]
    Performed as part of a double bill.
  7. [7]
    Performed in English translation
  8. [8]
    Performed as part of a triple bill
  9. [9]
    Abandoned by Mozart; date is that of composition.
  10. [10]
    Performed in an English translation by Arthur Jacobs
  11. [11]
    Left incomplete by Weber in 1821; completed by Gustav Mahler, who expanded surviving sketches and added music from other works by Weber
  12. [12]
    Revised version: first version premiered in 1909
  13. [13]
    A revised version of L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
  14. [14]
    Performed as part of a double bill with Pulcinella.
  15. [15]
    Performed in an English translation by Rory Bremner
  16. [16]
    Reports on the 2016 festival by Geoffrey Wheatcroft and John Allison in Opera January 2017, pp. 53–57. In addition, Riders to the Sea, Il campanello, and The Bear were staged with piano accompaniment.
  17. [17]
    Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. Report from Wexford. Opera, January 2018, Vol 69 No.1, pp. 37–39.
  18. [18]
    Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. "Report from Wexford". Opera, January 2019, vol. 70, no.1, pp. 51–54.
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