The following is a translation from the original interview in Italian.
What is Dorilla in Tempe about?
Like many pre-Metastasio librettos from the Eighteenth century, the story is a mere pretext to make music and theatre. The librettist Lucchini doesn’t really want to tell a story, nor the...
Applauded by Opera News for his "propulsive leadership" and for "memorably [capturing] the score’s moments of emotional gravitas", Timothy Myers enjoys a career that encompasses a wide breadth of repertoire and iconic projects, and demonstrates a commitment to quality long-term relationships with artists and institutions. This marks Myers' third appearance at the Wexford Festival, where he conducts Don Quichotte
If, as Andrew Clark wrote in The Financial Times in 2013, the Wexford Festival was 'a cradle of surprises in an age bringing metropolitan operatic companies into an ever closer hug of generic co-productions', how prescient of Wexford a decade earlier to have chosen for the first time an Artistic...
David Agler first appeared at the Wexford festival in 1996 and took over as Artistic Director in 2005. Since my first visit to Wexford in 2008, I have returned every October to see him greet the audience before each performance at the entrance of the splendid National Opera House. Recently, on a...
As we are coming to a close on our 67th Opera Festival , we sat down with the Assistant Company Manager, Sheldon Baxter and Artistic Intern, Alessandro Ambrosini, who took time out of their busy schedules to tell us about their experience during Wexford Festival Opera.