Music is central to the very fabric of Shakespeare’s late masterpiece The Tempest, so it is hardly surprising that this play has inspired more operas than any other Shakespearian work. La Tempesta Fromental Halévy 21, 24, 29 October, 3 November, BUY TICKETS
For all the exoticism in Lalla Roukh, there’s some local interest here: Félicien David’s opera is based on one of the most famous works of Thomas Moore, the celebrated Irish poet (and musician) who died 170 years ago this year. Lalla-Roukh Félicien David 22, 25, 30 October, 4 November, BUY TICKETS
Dvořák’s last opera has been neglected for reasons that are at once hard to fathom and easily understandable. An ideal ‘Wexford work’, then, it ties together many strands from across operatic history. Armida Antonín Dvořák 23, 28 October, 2, 5 November, BUY TICKETS