18^th October - 2^nd November

A WFO community-based adaptation of opera’s most heartwarming comedy, filled with Donizetti’s delectable music. Members of the local community will take part in workshops throughout...

First performed in 1901, Mascagni’s comic opera tells the tale of a travelling commedia dell’arte troupe, their impresario, and the interaction between the players and...

The 2024 Dr Tom Walsh Lecture will be given by Jeremy Dibble. Join renowned musicologist Professor Jeremy Dibble for an illuminating exploration of the life...

Commissioned by WFO to commemorate the centenary of Puccini’s death in 1924, writer and producer William Niall Morris has created a biographical work which showcases...

  The Critic, or An Opera Rehearsed, is a comic opera set onstage during the final rehearsals of a new operatic work. First performed in...

Lady Gregory in America is Colm Tóibín’s third opera, reuniting him with the composer Alberto Caruso, and reflects another of the author’s literary fascinations. It...

A riotous spectacle and one of the wittiest operatic parodies of opera itself. A regional opera company faces numerous obstacles and much quarrelling as various...

Twelve singers and four pianists will take part in the 2024 Wexford Factory, a WFO collaboration with Royal Irish Academy of Music and TU Dublin....

A dramatic tale of love and betrayal centred around a commedia dell’arte troupe. One of the earliest operas (along with Carmen and its fellow Cavalleria...

Always a hugely popular event, the Gala Night will see a number of the festival artists take audiences on a fun ride through a mixture...

Conducted by Wexford Festival Opera’s principal guest conductor, Francesco Cilluffo, and featuring four of operas extraordinary singers - Celine Byrne, Sharon Carty, Andrew Morstsein and...

Michael Dervan writes and hosts another impossible interview when he meets Charles Villiers Stanford. Jerome Hynes Theatre, National Opera House Wednesday, October 30, 3pm Booking...