We proudly present the latest of three live presentations from this year's Wexford Festival Opera - The Magic Fountain by Frederick Delius, live from the O'Reilly Theatre, National Opera House. Watch ...

THIS YEAR'S Wexford Opera Festival is rapidly closing in on sellout status, as organisers last week revealed that more than 90 per cent of tickets for the operatic performances have already been sold.

Wexford Festival Opera, which begins later this month, opens with the most popular work it has featured in years. The 2025 edition’s theme of myths and legends has led it to Verdi’s Il Trovatore, but ...

Steel and concrete can't beat good old wood to produce the best sounds for music.

“Each main opera takes turns rehearsing on the stage, thus requiring the sets to be assembled and disassembled for each production every other day,” says technical director, Dave Stuttard. “It can be ...

Opera has always loved exotic locations but when Yorkshire-born Frederick Delius set Koanga on an 18th-century Louisiana plantation, it wasn't as fanciful as it might seem. In the 1880s, he managed an ...

I’ve tried hard with Delius, I really have. I loved Ken Russell’s television film about his dotage. I’ve sat through his operas Fennimore and Gerda and Koanga. I’ve listened to Sea Drift in a darkened ...