Wexford Festival Opera
The Wexford Festival Opera ( Festival Opera Wexford) is an opera festival specializing primarily in rarities in the southeast Irish city of Wexford . The operas performed in Wexford include many unknown works by famous composers (e.g. Verdi's Aroldo ) and settings of famous operatic materials from the standard repertoire by other composers (e.g. Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni ).
history
Development of the festival under Tom Walsh (1951–1966)
The origins of the opera festival can be traced back to Sir Compton Mackenzie's visit to Ireland in November 1950. Mackenzie was the founder of The Gramophone magazine and a very well-read music writer who lectured to those interested in Wexford Opera. Mackenzie suggested that the group found their own theater, the Theater Royal (which later became a permanent venue for the festival until 2005). This theater that he was planning was excellently suited for staging certain operas.
The result was that a group of opera lovers - including Tom Walsh, who was elected first director of the festival - held a “Festival of Music and Art” (as the event was first called) from October 21 to November 4, 1951 ) planned. The highlight was a production of The Rose of Castile (1857), a little-known opera by 19th-century Irish composer Michael Balfe , which was also mentioned in a striking play on words by James Joyce in Ulysses .
In the next few years the Festival Opera positioned itself as a unique institution that, in addition to the works that are played everywhere, also always offered rarities, and this was widely noticed by the specialized press, which reported in detail on each season.
In the first decade, Wexford offered its enthusiasts and specialist public, increasingly interested in the rare works, rarities such as Lortzing's Wildschütz and (for the time) obscure works such as Bellini's La sonnambula , with Marilyn Cotlow (* 1924) as "Adina" and Nicola Monti (1920-1993) as "Elvino". Bryan Balkwill (1927–2007), Charles Mackerras and John Pritchard were among the young conductors who subsequently worked with famous producers and designers such as Micheál Mac Liammóir . For the time, the results were astounding and the festival soon attracted leading opera talent, new and established alike.
It was increasingly possible to recruit singers such as Nicola Monti, Afro Poli (1902–1988), Franco Calabrese and Paolo Pedani as well as up-and-coming British and Irish young stars such as Heather Harper , Bernadette Greevy , Thomas Hemsley and Geraint Evans (1922–1992) here present.
The 1960 season did not take place because of the renovation of the theater. When it opened in September 1961, Verdi's Ernani was presented.
Problems with maintaining the Irish Radio Orchestra led to the use of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for this one season, but the Irish radio orchestra was called in again the following year, which is why it proved itself here until 2005.
L'amico Fritz helped the talented young Irish singers Veronica Dunne and Bernadette Greevy to international attention in1962, while other famous names from the 1960s, such as Mirella Freni in Bellini's I puritani, could be heard. Jules Massenet's Don Quixote led to another outstanding event in 1965 with the bass veteran Miroslav Čangalović as Cervantes' old knight.
Albert Rosen (1924–1997), a young conductor from Prague, began a long-term collaboration with the institution in 1965, who directed eighteen Wexford productions. He later became chief conductor of the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra and at the time of his death in 1997 he was its honorary conductor.
Wexford under Brian Dickie (1967–1973)
In 1967, Walter Legge was asked to direct the festival, but within a month of his appointment, he suffered a serious heart attack and was forced to retire. Brian Dickie (* 1941), a 26-year-old former student at Trinity College, took over the management of the festival. A new era with outstanding vocal soloists emerged, with Glinka's first operas in Russian and works from the Czech repertoire, but at the same time a new accent in the French repertoire such as Delibes Lakmé (1970) and Georges Bizet's Perlenfischer (1971).
Wexford under Thomson Smillie (1974–1978)
Dickie was persuaded to return to Glyndebourne, but his successor in 1974 was Thomson Smillie, who came from the Scottish Opera . He campaigned for a production of three operas each. Much was neglected during this period, with Massenet's operas quickly becoming his favorites, and Smillie staging about Thaïs in his first season, and then continued that choice with a number of other operas by the composer, the seldom heard Sapho was produced in 2001.
In 1976 Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw was presented along with a rarity by Cimarosa , the one-man piece Il maestro di cappella . Other rare 18th-century Italian operas were presented in 1979 and beyond.
Wexford under Adrian Slack (1979–1981)
Adrian Slack mainly focused on Italian opera. There were some exceptions such as B. Handel's opera Orlando , Floyds Of Mice and Men and Mozart's Zaide . Spontini's La vestale was unforgettable because of a mishap, as all of the performers slipped on a steep, smooth surface of the stage, as impressively described by Bernard Levin.
Wexford under Elaine Padmore (1982-1994)
Elaine Padmore was a producer for the BBC who had previously organized the broadcasts of the productions on that channel. During her tenure as artistic director, she fanned out a wide range of music and singers, with many notable productions at Wexford. For example, she introduced Sergei Leiferkus to an audience outside Russia for the first time together with many other newcomers such as the American dramatic soprano Alessandra Marc . Other outstanding productions included the two productions by debutante Francesca Zambello , who first performed Donizetti's L'assedio di Calais in 1991 and Tchaikovsky's opera Slippery in 1993 .
From 1982 onwards, Padmore realized a new idea, namely the performance of “opera scenes”, ie excerpts from operas. This proved to be an inexpensive alternative for younger audiences as well as offering more work to the choir. The idea turned out to be very successful.
Michael Balfes The Rose of Castile , which had already been excavated at the beginning of the festival activities, was revived in a professional production in the spring of 1991, directed by Nicolette Molnár and set by John Lloyd Davies, making the festival now its 40th birthday celebrated.
Wexford under Luigi Ferrari (1995-2004)
In 1995 Padmore was replaced as artistic director by Luigi Ferrari, then director of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and later director of the Teatro Comunale Bologna . Of course, he developed his own style by preferring Italian and late romantic works such as Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'étoile du nord in 1996.
In 1994 the festival began a four-year series of commercial recordings, with radio broadcasts from the festival from the start, and many seasonal programs also broadcast on the BBC . The fiftieth festival in 2001 was a special event with the introduction of surtitles .
Wexford under David Agler (since 2005)
David Agler became Artistic Director and has selected the programs since 2005. He is an American conductor who was previously the musical director of the Vancouver Opera and a permanent conductor of the San Francisco Opera .
A follow-up idea to the original idea of the "Opera Scenes" was the concept of "Operas in Short Form": Mainstream works were then administered in highly concentrated doses, and this developed into an extraordinary success.
Opera productions
Opera | composer | language | UA | conductor | Director | Furnishing | Singer (selection) | |
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1951 | The Rose of Castille | Balfe | English | 1857 | Dermot O'Hara | Powell Lloyd | Murray Dickie | |
1952 | L'elisir d'amore | Donizetti | Italian | 1832 | Dermot O'Hara | Peter Ebert | Joseph Carl | Nicola Monti |
1953 | Don Pasquale | Donizetti | Italian | 1843 | Bryan Balkwill | Peter Ebert | Joseph Carl | Afro Poli , Nicola Monti |
1954 | La sonnambula | Bellini | Italian | 1831 | Bryan Balkwill | Peter Ebert | Joseph Carl | Marilyn Cotlow , Nicola Monti |
1955 | The poacher | Lortzing | German | 1842 | Hans Gierster | Anthony Besch | Peter Rice | Heather Harper , Thomas Hemsley |
1955 | Manon Lescaut | Puccini | Italian | 1893 | Bryan Balkwill | Anthony Besch | Peter Rice | |
1956 | La cenerentola | Rossini | Italian | 1817 | Bryan Balkwill | Peter Ebert | Joseph Carl | Patricia Kern , Nicola Monti |
1956 | Martha | Flotow | German | 1847 | Bryan Balkwill | Peter Potter | Joseph Carl | Josef Traxel , Constance Shacklock |
1957 | La Figlia del Reggimento | Donizetti | French | 1840 | Bryan Balkwill | Peter Ebert | Joseph Carl | Graziella Sciutti , Geraint Evans , Patricia Kern |
1957 | L'Italiana in Algeri | Rossini | Italian | 1813 | Bryan Balkwill | Peter Ebert | Joseph Carl | Paolo Montarsolo , Patricia Kern |
1958 | Anna Bolena | Donizetti | Italian | 1830 | Bryan Balkwill | Peter Potter | Michael Eve | Fiorenza Cossotto , Patricia Kern |
1958 | I due Foscari | Verdi | Italian | 1844 | Bryan Balkwill | Peter Ebert | Reginald Woolley | |
1959 | La gazza ladra | Rossini | Italian | 1817 | John Pritchard | Peter Potter | Osbert Lancaster | Janet Baker , Mariella Adani , Elizabeth Bainbridge , Nicola Monti |
1959 | Aroldo | Verdi | Italian | 1857 | Charles Mackerras | Frans Boerlage | Micheál Mac Liammóir | Aldo Protti , Elizabeth Bainbridge |
1960 | No festival - the theater was closed for renovation. | |||||||
1961 | Ernani | Verdi | Italian | 1844 | Bryan Balkwill | Peter Ebert | Reginald Woolley | |
1961 | Mireille | Gounod | French | 1864 | Michael Moore | Anthony Besch | Osbert Lancaster | Alain Vanzo |
1962 | L'amico Fritz | Mascagni | Italian | 1891 | Antonio Tonini | Michael Hadjimischev | Reginald Woolley | Bernadette Greevy , Nicola Monti |
1962 | I puritani | Bellini | Italian | 1835 | Gunnar Staern | Peter Ebert | Reginald Woolley | Mirella Freni |
1963 | Don Pasquale | Donizetti | Italian | 1843 | Antonio de Almeida | Michael Hadjimischev | Anna Hadjimischev | Margherita Rinaldi |
1963 | La Gioconda | Ponchielli | Italian | 1876 | Gunnar Staern | Peter Ebert | Reginald Woolley | |
1964 | Lucia di Lammermoor | Donizetti | Italian | 1835 | Antonio de Almeida | Michel Crochot | Reginald Woolley | Giacomo Aragall |
1964 | Il conte Ory | Rossini | French | 1828 | Gunnar Staern | Peter Ebert | Reginald Woolley | |
1964 | Much Ado About Nothing | Stanford | English | 1901 | Courtney Kenny | Peter Ebert | Reginald Woolley | |
1965 | Don Quixote | Massenet | French | 1910 | Albert Rosen | Carl Ebert | Reginald Woolley | |
1965 | La traviata | Verdi | Italian | 1853 | Gunnar Staern | Peter Ebert | Reginald Woolley | Philip Langridge |
1965 | La finta giardiniera | Mozart | Italian | 1775 | Gunnar Staern | Peter Ebert | Judith Ebert | Mattiwilda Dobbs |
1966 | Fra Diavolo | Auber | French | 1830 | Myer Fredman | Dennis Maunder | Reginald Woolley | |
1966 | Lucrezia Borgia | Donizetti | Italian | 1833 | Albert Rosen | Frith Banbury | Reginald Woolley | |
1967 | Otello | Rossini | Italian | 1816 | Albert Rosen | Anthony Besch | John Stoddart | |
1967 | Roméo and Juliette | Gounod | French | 1867 | David Lloyd-Jones | John Cox | Patrick Murray | Richard Van Allan |
1968 | La clemenza di Tito | Mozart | Italian | 1791 | Theodor Guschlbauer | John Copley | Michael Waller | |
1968 | La jolie fille de Perth | Bizet | French | 1867 | David Lloyd-Jones | Pauline Grant | Robin Archer | Roger Soyer |
1968 | L'equivoco stravagante | Rossini | Italian | 1811 | Aldo Ceccato | John Cox | John Stoddart | Richard Van Allan |
1969 | L'infedeltà delusa | Haydn | Italian | 1773 | David Lloyd-Jones | John Copley | John Fraser | Eugenia Ratti , Jill Gomez |
1969 | Luisa Miller | Verdi | Italian | 1849 | Myer Fredman | John Cox | Bernard Culshaw | Bernadette Greevy |
1970 | Albert Herring | Britten | English | 1947 | David Atherton | Michael Geliot | Jane Bond | Alan Opie |
1970 | Lakmé | Delibes | French | 1833 | David Lloyd-Jones | Michael Hadjimischev | John Fraser | Christiane Eda-Pierre |
1970 | L'inganno felice | Rossini | Italian | 1812 | David Atherton | Patrick Libby | John Fraser | Jill Gomez |
1970 | Il giovedì grasso | Donizetti | Italian | 1829 | David Atherton | Patrick Libby | John Fraser | Jill Gomez |
1971 | Les pêcheurs de perles | Bizet | French | 1863 | Guy barber | Michael Geliot | Roger Butlin / Jane Bond | Christiane Eda-Pierre |
1971 | La rondine | Puccini | Italian | 1917 | Myer Fredman | Anthony Besch | John Stoddart | Thomas Lawlor |
1971 | Il re pastore | Mozart | Italian | 1775 | Kenneth Montgomery | John Cox | Elizabeth Dalton | Norma Burrowes |
1972 | Oberon | Weber | English | 1826 | Kenneth Montgomery | Anthony Besch | Adam Pollock | |
1972 | Il pirata | Bellini | Italian | 1827 | Leone Magiera | Michael Geliot | Jane Venables | Christiane Eda-Pierre |
1972 | Káťa Kabanová | Janáček | Czech | 1921 | Albert Rosen | David Pountney |
Sue Blane / Maria Bjornson |
Ivo Žídek |
1973 | Ivan Susanin | Glinka | Russian | 1836 | Guy barber | Michael Hadjimischev | Sue Blane | Matti Salminen , Dennis O'Neill |
1973 | The player | Prokofiev | Russian | 1929 | Albert Rosen | David Pountney | Maria Bjornson | Joseph Rouleau , Dennis O'Neill, Richard Stilgoe |
1973 | L'ajo nell'imbarazzo | Donizetti | Italian | 1824 | Kenneth Montgomery | Patrick Libby | Adam Pollock | Richard Stilgoe |
1974 | Medea in Corinto | Mayr | Italian | 1813 | Roderick Bryden | Adrian Slack | David Fielding | Margreta Elkins |
1974 | Thaïs | Massenet | French | 1894 | Jacques Delacote | Jeremy Sutcliffe | John Fraser | Ann Murray , Jill Gomez |
1974 | The Barber of Baghdad | Cornelius | German | 1858 | Albert Rosen | Wolf Siegfried Wagner | Dacre Punt / Alex Reid |
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1975 | Eritrea | Cavalli | Italian | 1652 | Ian Strasfogel | Franco Colavecchia | Paul Esswood , Philip Langridge, Ann Murray | |
1975 | Le roi d'Ys | Lalo | French | 1888 | Jean Perrison | Jean Claude Auvray | Bernard Arnould | Gillian Knight |
1975 | La pietra del paragone | Rossini | Italian | 1812 | Roderick Bryden | Adrian Slack | John Bury | Eric Garrett |
1976 | Giovanna d'Arco | Verdi | Italian | 1845 | James Judd | Jeremy Sutcliffe | David Fielding | |
1976 | The merry women of Windsor | Nicolai | German | 1849 | Leonard Hancock | Patrick Libby | Adam Pollock | Michael Langdon , Alan Opie |
1976 | The turn of the screw | Britten | English | 1954 | Albert Rosen | Adrian Slack | David Fielding | Jane Manning |
1977 | Hérodiade | Massenet | French | 1882 | Henri Gallois | Julian Hope | Roger Butlin | Malcolm Donnelly , Bernadette Greevy, Bonaventura Bottone |
1977 | Orfeo ed Euridice | Luck | Italian | 1762 | Jane Glover | Wolf Siegfried Wagner | Dacre Punt / Alex Reid |
Jennifer Smith |
1977 | Il maestro di cappella | Cimarosa | Italian | 1793? | James Judd | Sesto Bruscantini | Tim Reed | Sesto Bruscantini |
1977 | La serva e l'ussero | Ricci, L. | Italian | 1836 | James Judd | Sesto Bruscantini | Tim Reed | Sesto Bruscantini, Bonaventura Bottone |
1977 | La serva padrona | Pergolesi | Italian | 1733 | James Judd | Sesto Bruscantini | Tim Reed | Sesto Bruscantini |
1978 | Lowlands | Eugen d'Albert | German | 1903 | Henri Gallois | Julian Hope | Roger Butlin | Malcolm Donnelly, Bonaventure Bottone |
1978 | Il mondo della luna | Haydn | Italian | 1777 | James Judd | Adrian Slack | Axel Bartz | Dennis O'Neill |
1978 | Dvě vdovy | Smetana | Czech | 1874 | Albert Rosen | David Pountney | Sue Blane | Felicity Palmer , Joseph Rouleau, Bonaventura Bottone |
1979 | L'amore dei tre re | Montemezzi | Italian | 1913 | Pinchas Steinberg | Stewart Trotter | Douglas Heap | Bonaventure Bottone |
1979 | La vestale | Spontini | Italian | 1807 | Matthias Bamert | Julian Hope | Roger Butlin / Sue Blane |
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1979 | Crispino e la comare | Ricci, F. & L. | Italian | 1850 | James Judd | Sesto Bruscantini | Tim Reed | Lucia Aliberti , Sesto Bruscantini, Bonaventura Bottone |
1980 | Edgar | Puccini | Italian | 1889 | Robin Stapleton | Roger Chapman | Douglas Heap / Jane Law |
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1980 | Orlando | Handel | Italian | 1733 | James Judd | Wilfred Judd | Kandis Cook / Alison Meacher |
Lesley Garrett , Bernadette Greevy |
1980 | Of Mice and Men | Floyd | English | 1970 | John DeMain | Stewart Trotter | John Cervenka | |
1981 | I gioielli della Madonna | Wolf Ferrari | Italian | 1911 | Colman Pearce | Graham Vick | Russell Craig | |
1981 | Zaide | Mozart | German | 1780 | Nicholas Cleobury | Timothy Tyrrel | Dermot Hayes | Neil Mackie , Lesley Garrett, Ulrik Cold |
1981 | Un giorno di regno | Verdi | Italian | 1840 | James Judd | Sesto Bruscantini | Tim Reed | Angela Feeney , Lucia Aliberti, Sesto Bruscantini |
1982 | Sakùntala | Alfano | Italian | 1921 | Albert Rosen | Nicholas Hytner | David Fielding | |
1982 | L'isola disabitata | Haydn | Italian | 1779 | Newell Jenkins | Guus Mostart | John Otto | Bernadette Greevy |
1982 | Grisélidis | Massenet | French | 1891 | Robin Stapleton | Steven Pimlott | Ariane Gastambide | Sergei Leiferkus |
1983 | Hans Heiling | Marschner | German | 1833 | Albert Rosen | Steven Pimlott | David Fielding | Sergei Leiferkus |
1983 | La vedova scaltra | Wolf Ferrari | Italian | 1931 | Yan Pascal Tortelier | Charles Hamilton | Tim Reed | Jill Gomez |
1983 | Linda di Chamounix | Donizetti | Italian | 1842 | Gabriele Bellini | Julian Hope | Annena Stubbs | Lucia Aliberti |
1984 | Le juggler de Notre-Dame | Massenet | French | 1902 | Yan Pascal Tortelier | Stefan Janski | Johan Engels | Patrick Power , Sergei Leiferkus |
1984 | Le astuzie femminili | Cimarosa | Italian | 1794 | György Fischer | Andy Hinds | John McMurray | Susanna Rigacci , Raúl Giménez |
1984 | Hubička | Smetana | Czech | 1876 | Albert Rosen | Toby Robertson | Bernard Culshaw | John Ayldon |
1985 | Ariodante | Handel | Italian | 1735 | Alan Curtis | Guus Mostart | John Otto | Raúl Giménez, Bernadette Greevy |
1985 | The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny | because | German | 1930 | Simon Joly | Declan Donnellan | John Ormerod | |
1985 | La Wally | Catalani | Italian | 1892 | Albert Rosen | Stefan Janski | Marie-Jeanne Lecca | |
1986 | Royal children | Humperdinck | German | 1897 | Albert Rosen | Michael McCaffrey | Di Seymour | William Lewis , Sergei Leiferkus |
1986 | Tancredi | Rossini | Italian | 1813 | Arnold Östman | Michael Beauchamp | William Passmore | Bruce Ford |
1986 | Mignon | Thomas | French | 1866 | Yan Pascal Tortelier | Richard Jones | Richard Hudson | |
1987 | Cendrillon | Massenet | French | 1899 | Stéphane Cardon | Seamus McGrenera | Tim Reed | |
1987 | La cena delle beffe | Giordano | Italian | 1924 | Albert Rosen | Patrick Mason | Joe Vaněk | Alessandra Marc , Fabio Armiliato , Miriam Gauci , Mikhail Krutikov |
1987 | La straniera | Bellini | Italian | 1829 | Jan Latham Koenig | Robert Carsen | Russell Craig | Mikhail Svetlov (Krutikov) |
1988 | Čert a Káča | Dvořák | Czech | 1899 | Albert Rosen | Francesca Zambello | Neil Peter Jampolis | |
1988 | Don Giovanni | Gazzaniga | Italian | 1787 | Simon Joly | Patrick Mason | Joe Vaněk | Norman Bailey |
1988 | Turandot | Busoni | Italian | 1917 | Simon Joly | Patrick Mason | Joe Vaněk | Norman Bailey |
1988 | Elisa e Claudio | Mercadante | Italian | 1821 | Marco Guidarini | David Fielding | David Fielding / Bettina Munzer |
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1989 | The Templar and the Jewess | Marschner | German | 1829 | Albert Rosen | Francesca Zambello | Bettina Munzer | William Stone , Greer Grimsley |
1989 | Mitridate, re di Ponto | Mozart | Italian | 1770 | Marco Guardarini | Lucy Bailey | Peter J Davison | Patricia Rozario |
1989 | The engagement in the monastery | Prokofiev | Russian | 1946 | František Vajnar | Patrick Mason | Joe Vaněk | Spiro Malas , Thomas Lawlor |
1990 | Zazà | Leoncavallo | Italian | 1900 | Bruno Rigacci | Jamie Hayes | Ruari Murchison | Wojciech Drabowicz |
1990 | The Rising of the Moon | Maw | English | 1970 | Simon Joly | Ceri Sherlock | Richard Aylwin | Elizabeth Bainbridge, Thomas Lawlor |
1990 | La dame blanche | Boieldieu | French | 1825 | Emmanuel Joel | Jean-Claude Auvray | Kenny MacLellan | Gillian Knight |
1991 | L'assedio di Calais | Donizetti | Italian | 1836 | Evelino Pidò | Francesca Zambello | Alison Chitty | Frank Kelley |
1991 | The Taming of the Shrew | Goetz | German | 1874 | Oliver von Dohnányi | John Lloyd-Davies | John Lloyd-Davies | Stefan Margita , Frank Kelley |
1991 | La rencontre imprévue | Luck | French | 1764 | Richard Hickox | Jamie Hayes | Ruari Murchison | Paul Austin Kelly |
1992 | Il piccolo Marat | Mascagni | Italian | 1921 | Albert Rosen | Stephen Medcalf | Charles Edwards | |
1992 | Gli equivoci | Storace | Italian | 1786 | Mark Shanahan | Giles Havergal | Russell Craig | |
1992 | The vampire | Marschner | German | 1827 | Guido Johannes Rumstadt | Jean-Claude Auvray | Kenny MacLellan | |
1993 | Čerevički | Tchaikovsky | Russian | 1885 | Alexander Anissimov | Francesca Zambello | Bruno Schwengl | Vladimir Matorin |
1993 | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Paisiello | Italian | 1782 | Carla Delfrate | Lucy Bailey | Simon Vincenzi | |
1993 | Zampa | Herold | French | 1831 | Yves Abel | Tim Hopkins | Charles Edwards | Mary Mills |
1994 | Demon | Rubinstein | Russian | 1875 | Alexander Anissimov | Yefim Maizel | Paul Steinberg | |
1994 | La bohème | Leoncavallo | Italian | 1897 | Albert Rosen | Reto Nickler | Russell Craig | |
1994 | The prohibition of love | wagner | German | 1836 | Yves Abel | Dieter Kaegi | Bruno Schwengel | Gidon Saks , Peter Svensson |
1995 | iris | Mascagni | Italian | 1898 | Bruno Aprea | Lorenzo Mariani | Maurizio Balò | |
1995 | Saffò | Pacini | Italian | 1840 | Maurizio Benini | Beni Montressor | Beni Montressor | |
1995 | Maiskaja noč ' | Rimsky-Korsakov | Russian | 1880 | Vladimir Jurowski | Stephen Medcalf | Francis O'Connor | Vladimir Matorin |
1996 | Parisina | Donizetti | Italian | 1833 | Maurizio Benini | Stefano Vizioli | Ulderico Manani | Alexandrina Pendatchanska |
1996 | L'étoile you north | Meyerbeer | French | 1854 | Vladimir Jurowski | Denis Krief | Denis Krief | Juan Diego Flórez , Elizabeth Futral |
1996 | Šárka | Fibich | Czech | 1897 | David Agler | Inga Levant | Charles Edwards / Brigitte Reiffenstuel |
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1997 | Russalka | Dargomyschski | Russian | 1856 | Paul Mägi | Dimitri Bertmann | Igor Nezny / Tatyana Tulubieva |
Alessandro Safina |
1997 | La fiamma | Respighi | Italian | 1934 | Enrique Mazzola | Franco Ripa di Meana | Edoardo Sanchi | |
1997 | Elena da Feltre | Mercadante | Italian | 1839 | Maurizio Benini | Sonja Frisell | Marouan Dib | |
1998 | Fosca | Gomes | Italian | 1873 | Alexander Anissimov | Giovanni Agostinucci | Giovanni Agostinucci | Fernando del Valle |
1998 | Sarlatan | Haas | Czech | 1938 | Israel Yinon | John Abulafia | Fotini Dimou | |
1998 | I cavalieri di Ekebù | Zandonai | Italian | 1925 | Daniele Callegari | Gabriele Vacis | Francesco Calcagnini / Hilary Lewis |
Joseph Calleja |
1999 | The Queen of Sheba | Gold mark | German | 1875 | Claude Schnitzler | Patrick Mailler | Massimo Gasparon | |
1999 | Straszny Dwór | Moniuszko | Polish | 1865 | David Jones | Michal Znaniecki | Francesco Calcagnini | |
1999 | Siberia | Giordano | Italian | 1903 | Daniele Callegari | Fabio Sparvoli | Giorgio Ricchelli / Alessandra Torelli |
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2000 | Orleanskaya deva | Tchaikovsky | Russian | 1881 | Daniele Callegari | Massimo Gasparon | Massimo Gasparon | Ermonela Jaho |
2000 | Si j'étais roi | Adam | French | 1852 | David Agler | Renaud Doucet | André Barbe / Huguette Barbe-Blanchard |
Joseph Calleja |
2000 | Conchita | Zandonai | Italian | 1911 | Marcello Rota | Corrado d'Elia | Fabrizio Palla / Steve Almerighi |
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2001 | Alessandro Stradella | Flotow | German | 1844 | Daniele Callegari | Thomas de Mallet Burgess | Julian McGowan | |
2001 | Jakobín | Dvořák | Czech | 1889 | Alexandre Voloschuk | Michael McCaffery | Paul Edwards | Markus Werba |
2001 | Sapho | Massenet | French | 1897 | Jean-Luc Tingaud | Fabio Sparvoli | Giorgio Ricchelli / Alessandra Torella |
Ermonela Jaho |
2002 | Mirandolina | Martinů | Italian | 1959 | Riccardo Frizza | Paul Curran | Kevin Knight | |
2002 | Il giuramento | Mercadante | Italian | 1837 | Paolo Arrivabene | Joseph Rochlitz | Lucia Goj / Silvia Aymonino |
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2002 | Manon Lescaut | Auber | French | 1856 | Jean-Luc Tingaud | Jean-Phillippe Clarac / Olivier Deloeuil |
Greco | Ermonela Jaho |
2003 | Švanda dudák | Weinberger | Czech | 1927 | Julian Reynolds | Damiano Michieletto | Robin Rawstorne | |
2003 | The three pintos | Weber | German | 1888 | Paolo Arrivabene | Michal Znaniecki | Kevin Knight | |
2003 | María del Carmen | Granados | Spanish | 1898 | Max Bragado-Darman | Sergio Vela | Cristiana Aureggi / Violeta Rojas |
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2004 | Princess Brambilla | Braunfels | German | 1931 | Danieli Belardinelli | Rosetta Cucchi | Maria Rosaria Tartaglia | |
2004 | La vestale | Mercadante | Italian | 1840 | Paolo Arrivabene | Thomas de Mallet Burgess | Jamie Vartan | |
2004 | Eve | Ranger | Czech | 1899 | Jaroslav Kyzlink | Paul Curran | Paul Edwards | |
2005 | Penelope | Faure | French | 1913 | Jean-Luc Tingaud | Renaud Doucet | André Barbe | Paul Carey Jones |
2005 | Susannah | Floyd | English | 1955 | Christopher Larkin | John Fulljames | Conor Murphy | Simon O'Neill |
2005 | Maria di Rohan | Donizetti | Italian | 1843 | Roberto Polastri | Charles Edwards | Charles Edwards / Brigitte Rieffenstuel |
Eglise Gutiérrez , James Westman |
2006 | Don Gregorio | Donizetti | Italian | 1826 | Michele Mariotti | Roberto Recchia | Ferdia Murphy | |
2006 | Transformations | Susa | English | 1973 | David Agler | Michael Barker-Caven | Joe Vaněk | |
2007 | Arlecchino | Busoni | German | 1917 | David Agler | Lucio Dalla | Italo Grassi | |
2007 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Czech | 1901 | Dmitri Jurowski | Lee Blakeley | Joe Vaněk | Kateřina Jalovcová , Bryan Hymel |
2007 | The silver lake | because | German | 1933 | Timothy Redmond | Keith Warner | Jason Southgate | Nigel Richards , Simon Gleeson , Anita Dobson , Paul Carey Jones |
2008 | Tutti in maschera | Pedrotti | Italian | 1856 | Leonardo Vordoni | Rosetta Cucchi | Federico Bianchi / Claudia Pernigotti |
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2008 | Sneguročka | Rimsky-Korsakov | Russian | 1882 | Dmitri Jurowski | John Fulljames | Dick Bird | Natela Nicoli , Kateřina Jalovcová |
2008 | The Mines of Sulfur | Bennett | English | 1965 | Stewart Robertson | Michael Barker-Caven | Joe Vaněk | Krisztina Szabó |
2009 | Maria Padilla | Donizetti | Italian | 1841 | David Agler | Marco Gandini | Mauro Tinti | |
2009 | The Ghosts of Versailles | Corigliano | English | 1991 | Michael Christie | James Robinson |
Allen Moyer / James Schuette |
Krisztina Szabó |
2009 | Une éducation manquée | Chabrier | French | 1879 | Christopher Franklin | Roberto Recchia | Lorenzo Cutùli / Claudia Pernigotti |
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2009 | La cambiale di matrimonio | Rossini | Italian | 1810 | Christopher Franklin | Roberto Recchia | Lorenzo Cutùli / Claudia Pernigotti |
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2010 | Virginia | Mercadante | Italian | 1866 | Carlos Izcaray | Kevin Newbury | Allen Moyer | |
2010 | The Golden Ticket | Ash | English | 2010 | Timothy Redmond | James Robinson | Bruno Schwengl / Martin Pakledinaz | Frank Kelley |
2010 | Hubiĉka | Smetana | Czech | 1876 | Jaroslav Kyzlink | Michael Gieleta | James Macnamara / Fabio Toblini | |
2011 | Maria | Statkowski | Polish | 1906 | Tomasz Tokarczyk | Michael Gieleta | James Macnamara / Fabio Toblini | Daria Masiero, Rafał Bartminski |
2011 | Gianni di Parigi | Donizetti | Italian | 1839 | Giacomo Sagripanti | Federico Grazzini | Tiziano Santi / Valeria Donata Betella | Edgardo Rocha, Zuzana Markova |
2011 | La cour de Célimène | Thomas | French | 1855 | Carlos Izcaray | Stephen Barlow | Paul Edwards | Claudia Boyle, John Molloy |
2012 | L'Arlesiana | Cilea | Italian | 1897 | David Angus | Rosetta Cucchi | Sarah Bacon, Claudia Pernigotti | Annunziata Vestri, Dimitry Golovnin |
2012 | Le roi malgré lui | Chabrier | French | 1887 | Jean-Luc Tingaud | Thaddeus Strassberger | Kevin Knight / Mattie Ulrich |
Luigi Boccia, Liam Bonner, Mathias Vidal |
2012 | A Village Romeo and Juliet | Delius | English | 1907 | Rory Macdonald | Stephen Medcalf | Jamie Vartan | John Bellemer, Jessica Muirhead |
2013 | Il has the paglia di Firenze | rota | Italian | 1955 | Sergio Alapont | Andrea Cigni | Lorenze Cutùli | Fillipo Adami |
2013 | La Navarraise | Massenet | French | 1894 | David Agler | Renaud Doucet | André Barbe | Nora Sourouzian, Philippe Do. |
2013 | Thérèse | Massenet | French | 1907 | David Agler | Renaud Doucet | André Barbe | Nora Sourouzian, Philippe Do, Brian Mulligan |
2013 | Cristina, regina di Svezia | Foroni | Italian | 1849 | Andrew Greenwood | Stephen Medcalf | Jamie Vartan | Helena Dix |
Award
- International Opera Award 2014 , Rediscovery of the Year (for Foronis Cristina, regina di Svezia )
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Schwarzkopf, pp. 12-13.
- ^ Year of performance in Wexford.
- ↑ Original language of the libretto.
- ↑ year of the premiere.
- ↑ If there are two names, the first is a set designer and the second a costume designer.
- ↑ a b Listed in Italian translation.
- ↑ a b c d e f As part of a performance of two works.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Listed in English translation.
- ↑ a b c As part of a performance of three works.
- ↑ Left unfinished by Mozart; Date of setting.
- ↑ Listed in the Italian translation by Arthur Jacobs .
- ↑ Left in fragments by Weber in 1821; supplemented and edited by Gustav Mahler .
- ↑ Revised version: first version from 1909.
- ^ Revised version of L'ajo nell'imbarazzo .
- ↑ Listed together with Pulcinella .
- ↑ Listed in English translation by Rory Bremner .
literature
- Karina Daley: Tom Walsh's Opera: The History of the Wexford Festival, 1951-2004. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. ISBN 1-85182-878-8
- Ian Fox: 100 Nights at the Opera: An Anthology to Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Wexford Festival Opera. Dublin: Town House and Country House, 1991. ISBN 0-948524-32-4
- Bernard Levin: Conducted Tour , London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. (An overview of 12 favorite music festivals, including Wexford.)
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf : On and Off the Record - A Memoir of Walter Legge . London, Faber and Faber, 1988. ISBN 0-571-14912-X
- Wexford Festival Programs , Wexford: Wexford Festival Trust, 1951–2009.