2024 Window Display Competition
Wexford businesses are invited to use the inspiration of this year’s Festival theme ‘Theatre within Theatre’. The entries must reference Wexford Festival Opera. All businesses...
“SITUATIONS” Art Exhibition
La Vista Café & Restaurant at National Opera House National Opera House, WexfordSolo art exhibition of Oil Paintings by Rose-Mary Clancy La Vista Café & Restaurant, National Opera House, Wexford Friday, October 18 – Saturday, November...
Community Opera – The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti
The Grain Store at Stonebridge Paul Quay, WexfordA 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...
Opera – Le Maschere by Pietro Mascagni
O'Reilly Theatre National Opera House, Wexford, WexfordFirst 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...
Dr Tom Walsh Lecture
Jerome Hynes Theatre National Opera House, WexfordThe 2024 Dr Tom Walsh Lecture will be given by Jeremy Dibble. Join renowned musicologist Professor Jeremy Dibble for an illuminating exploration of the life...
Pocket Opera – Puccini: Man of the Theatre by William Niall Morris
Jerome Hynes Theatre National Opera House, WexfordCommissioned 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...
Opera – The Critic by Charles Villers Stanford
O'Reilly Theatre National Opera House, Wexford, WexfordThe Critic, or An Opera Rehearsed, is a comic opera set onstage during the final rehearsals of a new operatic work. First performed in...
Pocket Opera – Lady Gregory In America by Alberto Caruso. Libretto by Colm Tóibín.
Jerome Hynes Theatre National Opera House, WexfordLady 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...
Opera – Le Convenienze Ed Inconvenienze Teatrali by Gaetano Donizetti
O'Reilly Theatre National Opera House, Wexford, WexfordA riotous spectacle and one of the wittiest operatic parodies of opera itself. A regional opera company faces numerous obstacles and much quarrelling as various...
Wexford Factory Concert
O'Reilly Theatre National Opera House, Wexford, WexfordTwelve singers and four pianists will take part in the 2024 Wexford Factory, a WFO collaboration with Royal Irish Academy of Music and TU Dublin....
Pocket Opera – Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
O'Reilly Theatre National Opera House, Wexford, WexfordA 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...
Gala Concert
O'Reilly Theatre National Opera House, Wexford, WexfordAlways a hugely popular event, the Gala Night will see a number of the festival artists take audiences on a fun ride through a mixture...
