Wexford Festival Opera

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• Wexford Festival Opera and Zurich Reward Sterling Service in their Diamond Year

  Long time Festival Volunteer and current Head of the Green Room, Elizabeth Foley , was awarded the first-ever Wexford Festival Opera / Zurich Volunteers Award - for Outstanding Leadership and Development by Conor Brennan, Director of Broker Distribution at Zurich at a ceremony in Wexford...

• President McAleese to officially close 60th Wexford Festival Opera after 14 years as Patron

  President Mary McAleese, and her husband Senator Martin McAleese, will attend the final performance of the 60th anniversary Wexford Festival Opera as guests of honour, on Saturday, 5 November, in what will be one of the President’s last official functions of her 14 year term as Uachtarán na...

• Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D. opens the 60th Wexford Festival Opera

  The first Festival of opera took place in Wexford in October 1951, and opened with a production of The Rose of Castile by one-time Wexford resident, Michael William Balfe. From that humble beginning Wexford Festival Opera has grown to be one of the premier and longest established cultural...

• An Taoiseach Enda Kenny Officially Opens 60th Wexford Festival Opera

  Entertainment commenced on the quay with Southeast Radio broadcasting live from 4:30pm.  Maurice McCarthy acted as MC for the evening, presenting a full line-up of entertainment for all the family, including Oyster Lane Theatre Group, performing extracts from their upcoming production of...

• John Allison welcomes Roman Statkowski’s little-known masterpiece ‘Maria’

  Even by its own exceptional standards for unearthing rarities, this month the Wexford Festival offers something very scarce. Usually its featured composers are well enough known, even if the works themselves are not (for example, Donizetti and Ambroise Thomas, whose Gianni di Parigi and La...

• Wexford Festival Opera celebrates Culture Night

  Make sure to come along to the luxurious walnut clad foyer of Wexford Opera House at 7pm this Friday Night (September 23) to get a sneak-peak of 3 Sopranos from this year’s fantastic line-up at the 60th Wexford Festival Opera! 30 minutes of stunning, playful and passionate performances –...

• County Wexford Businesses urged to take advantage of the Green Business Initiative 2011

  The 2011 launch of the real cost-saving programme is open to all business sectors to attend.  The launch event will identify simple steps business owners/managers can implement to help achieve significant cost savings whilst protecting the environment.  As a success of last year we are...

• Wexford Festival Opera has already reached 75% of ticket sales for 60th anniversary Festival

  Commenting on the figures, Chief Executive of Wexford Festival Opera, David McLoughlin said, “While greatly encouraged by the positive reaction to this year’s programme, and the strong demand from our loyal audiences for tickets, we are more dependent than ever on box office receipts. The...

• Wexford Festival Opera and Febvre form a diamond alliance!

  Febvre, known for its original thinking in wine, understands that reputation is important and company executives trawl the world seeking out the finest wines.  The result is a carefully selected choice of award-winning wines that will delight the palate of Wexford’s opera lovers.  The wine...

• Green Business Initiative Saves Wexford Businesses €370,000

  Following the success of last year’s programme, the Greening Wexford Festival Opera initiative will again be launched on Wednesday, 7th September at 10.30 am in Greenacres, North Main Street. During the launch a report detailing the success stories of last year will also be available and...

• General booking opens for 60th Anniversary Wexford Festival Opera

  The 2011 Festival will mark 60 years since the first Festival took place in Wexford in October 1951, which opened with a production of The Rose of Castile by one-time Wexford resident, Michael William Balfe. Since that humble beginning Wexford Festival Opera has grown to be one of the...

• Chorus of Wexford Festival Opera

  One of the principal aims behind the creation of the Chorus is to nurture the future stars of the Wexford opera stage. The Chorus is made up of thirty-two talented young singers, some of whom are outstanding students and some of whom are professional singers on the threshold of their...

• La Cour de Célimène and Maria nominated for ‘Best Opera’ production in Irish Times Theatre Awards

  Also on the list of nominations is Maria by Polish composer Roman Statkowski written in 1903 and successfully premiéred in Warsaw in 1906 but which had received only six other productions before the 2011 production at Wexford.  It was directed by Polish-born director Michael Gieleta, who...