theartsdesk at Wexford Festival Opera 2025 - two strong productions, mostly fine casting, and a star is born A drawback of choosing relatively or very obscure operas, as they've been mostly doing in Wexford Festival since 1951, is that the audiences probably won’t come out humming the tunes. That changed thi...

#WexfordFestivalOpera 2025 - Two strong productions, mostly fine casting, and a star is born - @davidnice.bsky.social takes in four operas and an outstanding lunchtime recital in two days #Letrouvère #LydiaGrindatto #TheDwarf #Deidamia #IlviaggioaReims theartsdesk.com/opera/theart...

📆June 19, 1825 Gioachino Rossini's opera "Il viaggio a Reims" (The Journey to Reims) #premieres in #celebration of the #coronation of #French #KingCharlesX

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