With rehearsals swiftly approaching for this season and people coming from far and wide, have you ever wondered what it must be like to be an individual who travels for work from town to town, from city to city, from country to country and occasionally continents? What kind of person does that for a living? They choose to base themselves in one place and hope to get to see it occasionally throughout the year, because they work somewhere else? To leave all that’s familiar, voluntarily, and head off into the unknown to earn some money? To living out of a suitcase in a faceless hotel or apartment block. Having to re-adjust to time zones, climates, languages, cultures, food and customs? Christmas in New York or Summer in Iceland. Yes?

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Hello again!! I’m very pleased to let you all know that Wexford town based dance company ‘Myriad’, has been appointed the resident dance company for Wexford Opera House. The announcement was made on August 10th. From Artistic Director, Deirdre Grant on the appointment: “This new opportunity to collaborate and co-produce work with Wexford Opera House is an intriguing and exciting development for the company”.

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An enormous welcome to the most recent, new media element, of Wexford Festival Opera’s (WFO) website.

My name is Justin Murphy and I have been involved in various ways and capacities with WFO. As a child, WFO was always a magical time in the town, for me, even more than Christmas. There was always a great sense of something special and unique happening, even though I had no idea where the theatre even was then.

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