Wexford Festival Opera

The new theater above the Wexford skyline, 2014

The Theater Royal during the intermission of a Festival Opera performance, 2002 (before major renovations)

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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2009	La cambiale di matrimonio	Rossini	Italian	1810	Christopher Franklin	Roberto Recchia	Lorenzo Cutùli / Claudia Pernigotti
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

1. ↑ Schwarzkopf, pp. 12-13.
2. ^ Year of performance in Wexford.
3. ↑ Original language of the libretto.
4. ↑ year of the premiere.
5. ↑ If there are two names, the first is a set designer and the second a costume designer.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Listed in Italian translation.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} As part of a performance of two works.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Listed in English translation.
9. ↑ ^{a b c} As part of a performance of three works.
10. ↑ Left unfinished by Mozart; Date of setting.
11. ↑ Listed in the Italian translation by Arthur Jacobs .
12. ↑ Left in fragments by Weber in 1821; supplemented and edited by Gustav Mahler .
13. ↑ Revised version: first version from 1909.
14. ^ Revised version of L'ajo nell'imbarazzo .
15. ↑ Listed together with Pulcinella .
16. ↑ 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.

Web links

• Wexford Festival Opera website