Past Productions
Wexford Festival Opera began in 1951, playing a central role in the cultural life of Ireland and in the world of opera and the arts internationally.
From small and humble beginnings it has achieved worldwide success and critical acclaim by demonstrating passion, innovation and a willingness to lead audiences and artists into neglected territories to explore the rich vein of operatic work worldwide.
We invite you to explore our past repertoire below. You can discover details about the cast and creative teams of any past production by clicking on the title of the opera.
The Rose of Castille / Michael William Balfe
L’Elisir d’Amore / Gaetano Donizetti
Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti
La Sonnambula / Vincenzo Bellini
Der Wildschütz / Albert Lortzing
La Cenerentola / Rossini
Martha / Flotow
La Figlia del Reggimento / Donizetti
L’Italiana in Algeri / Rossini
Anna Bolena / Donizetti
I Due Foscari / Verdi
La Gazza Ladra / Gioacchino Rossini
Aroldo / Giuseppe Verdi
Theatre Closed for Reconstruction /
Ernani / Giuseppe Verdi
Mireille / Charles Gounod
L’Amico Fritz / Pietro Mascagni
I Puritani / Vincenzo Bellini
Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti
La Gioconda / Amilcare Ponchielli
The Siege of Rochelle / M.W. Balfe
Lucia di Lammermoor / Gaetano Donizetti
Il Conte Ory / Gioacchino Rossini
Much Ado About Nothing / Charles V. Stanford
Don Quichotte / Jules Massenet
La Traviata / Giuseppe Verdi
La Finta Giardiniera / W.A. Mozart
Fra Diavolo / Daniel Francois Auber
Lucrezia Borgia / Gaetano Donizetti
Otello / Gioacchino Rossini
Romeo et Juliette / Charles Gounod
La Clemenza di Tito / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La Jolie Fille de Perth / Georges Bizet
L’Equivoco Stravagante / Gioacchino Rossini
L’Infedelta Delusa / Franz Joseph Haydn
Luisa Miller / Giuseppe Verdi
Albert Herring / Britten
Lakme / Delibes
L’Inganno Felice / Rossini
Giovedi Grasso / Donizetti
Les Pêcheurs de Perles / Georges Bizet
La Rondine / Giacomo Puccini
Il Re Pastore / W.A. Mozart
Oberon / Carl Maria von Weber
Il Pirata / Vincenzo Bellini
Katya Kabanova / Leos Janacek
Ivan Susanin / M.I. Glinka
The Gambler / Sergei Prokofiev
L’Ajo nell’Imbarazzo / Gaetano Donizetti
Medea in Corinto / Giovanni Simone Mayr
Thaïs / Jules Massenet
Der Barbier von Bagdad / Peter Cornelius
Eritrea / Francesco Cavalli
Le Roi d’Ys / Edouard Lalo
La Pietra del Paragone / Gioacchino Rossini
Giovanna d’Arco / Verdi
The Merry Wives of Windsor / Nicolai
The Turn of the Screw / Britten
Herodiade / Massenet
Orfeo et Euridice / Christophe Willibald Gluck
Il Maestro di Cappella / Maffeo Zanon, based on music by Cimarosa
La Serva e l’Ussero / Luigi Ricci
La Serva Padrona / Pergolesi
Tiefland / Eugene d'Albert
The Two Widows / Bedrich Smetana
Il Mondo della Luna / Franz Joseph Haydn
L’Amore dei Tre Re / Italo Montemezzi
Crispino et la Comare / Ricci Brothers
Edgar / Giacomo Puccini
Of Mice and Men / Carlisle Floyd
Orlando / G.F. Handel
Zaide / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Un Giorno di Regno / Giuseppe Verdi
I Gioielli della Madonna / Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Griselidis / Jules Massenet
Arianna a Naxos/L’Isola Disabitata / Haydn
Sakùntala / Franco Alfano
La Vedova Scaltra / Wolf-Ferrari
Hans Heiling / Heinrich Marschner
Linda di Chamounix / Gaetano Donizetti
Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame / Jules Massenet
The Kiss / Smetana
Le Astuzie Femminili / Domenico Cimarosa
La Wally / Alfredo Catalani
Ariodante / G.F. Handel
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny / Kurt Weill
Konigskinder / Engelbert Humperdinck
Tancredi / Gioacchino Rossini
Mignon / Ambroise Thomas
La Straniera / Vincenzo Bellini
La Cena delle Beffe / Umberto Giordano
Cendrillon / Jules Massenet
The Devil and Kate / Antonin Dvorak
Elisa e Claudio / Saverio Mercadante
Don Giovanni Tenorio / Giuseppe Gazzaniga
Turandot / Ferruccio Busoni
Der Templer und die Jüdin / Heinrich Marschner
Mitridate, Re di Ponto / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Duenna / Sergei Prokofiev
Zaza / Ruggiero Leoncavallo
The Rising of the Moon / Nicholas Maw
La Dame Blanche / Francois Adrien Boieldieu
L’Assedio di Calais / Gaetano Donizetti
La Rencontre Imprévue / Christoph Willibald Gluck
Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung / Hermann Goetz
Il Piccolo Marat / Pietro Mascagni
Gli Equivoci / Stephen Storace
Der Vampyr / Heinrich Marschner
Cherevichki / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Giovanni Paisiello
Zampa / Ferdinand Herold
The Demon / Anton Rubinstein
La Bohème / Ruggero Leoncavallo
Das Liebesverbot / Richard Wagner
Saffo / Giovanni Pacini
Mayskaya noch’ / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Iris / Pietro Mascagni
Parisina / Gaetano Donizetti
L’Etoile du Nord / Giacomo Meyerbeer
Sarka / Zdenek Fibich
Elena da Feltre / Saverio Mercadante
La Fiamma / Ottorino Respighi
Fosca / Carlos Gomes
Sarlatan / Pavel Haas
I Cavalieri di Ekebu / Riccardo Zandonai
Die Konigin von Saba / Karl Goldmark
Straszny dwor / Stanislaw Moniuszko
Siberia / Umberto Giordano
Conchita / Zandonai
Orleanskaya deva / Tchaikovsky
Si j’étais roi / Adam
Alessandro Stradella / Flotow
Jakobin / Dvorak
Sapho / Massenet
Manon Lescaut / Auber
Il giuramento / Mercadante
Mirandolina / Martinu
Manon Lescaut / Auber
Maria del Carmen / Granados
Die Drei Pintos / Weber/Mahler
Svanda Dudak (Svanda the Bagpiper) / Weinberger
La Vestale / Mercadante
Eva / Foerster
Prinzessin Brambilla / Braunfels
Maria di Rohan / Donizetti
Pénélope / Gabriel Fauré
Susannah / Carlisle Floyd
Don Gregorio / Donizetti
Transformations / Susa
Rusalka / Dvorak
Der Silbersee / Weill
Arlecchino / Ferruccio Busoni
Pulcinella / Stravinsky
Snegurochka / Rimsky-Korsakov
The Mines of Sulphur / Bennett
Tutti in Maschera / Pedrotti
The Ghosts of Versailles / John Corigliano
Une éducation manquée / Emmanuel Chabrier
La cambiale di matrimonio / Gioachino Rossini
Maria Padilla / Gaetano Donizetti
Virginia / Saverio Mercadante
The Golden Ticket / Peter Ash
Hubička / Bedrich Smetana
La Cour de Célimène / Ambroise Thomas
Maria / Roman Statkowski
Gianni di Parigi / Gaetano Donizetti
L’Arlesiana / Francesco Cilea
Le Roi malgré lui / Emmanuel Chabrier
A Village Romeo and Juliet / Frederick Delius
Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze / Nino Rota
Thérèse / Jules Massenet
La Navarraise / Jules Massenet
Cristina, regina di Svezia / Jacopo Foroni
Salomé / Antoine Mariotte
Don Bucefalo / Antonio Cagnoni
Silent Night / Kevin Puts
Koanga / Frederick Delius
Guglielmo Ratcliff / Pietro Mascagni
Le Pré aux clercs / Ferdinand Hérold
Herculanum / Félicien David
Vanessa / Samuel Barber
Maria de Rudenz / Gaetano Donizetti
Margherita / Antonio Foroni
Medea / Luigi Cherubini
Risurrezione / Franco Alfano