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The Wexford Festival Opera is an opera festival that takes place in the town of Wexford in south-eastern Ireland during the months of October and November.
The festival began in 1951 under Tom Walsh and a group of opera lovers who quickly generated considerable interest by programming unusual and rare works, a typical festival staging three operas. This concept has been maintained over the company's history under the direction of seven different artistic directors. From the beginning, the company embraced new and upcoming young singers, many of whom were Irish, but it also included new international names who made first appearances there.
By the 1960s Czech and Russian operas entered the repertory, while the 1970s saw an interest in the operas of Jules Massenet under director Thomson Smillie, followed by an emphasis on Italian operas from the end of that decade. However, into the mix there appeared more modern operas by Benjamin Britten and Carlisle Floyd while Elaine Padmore's 12-year tenure resulted in more international singers making first appearances and the beginnings of commercial recordings and radio broadcasts.
The current artistic director since 2005, David Agler, oversaw the creation of a new opera house with enhanced facilities on the site of the original theatre.
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Popular Songs
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: Rosina's aria, Contro un cor
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: Act II finale
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: Start some gossip, some slander-Don Basilio
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: Figaro's Entrance Aria
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: The Barber of Seville, his 17th opera
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: Act I
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: Introduction
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: The Overture
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: Act I finale
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: Rosina-Una voce poco fa
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: Zitti, zitti-Quickly, quickly
- An Introduction to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', narration with musical examples: Act II
- Act I: Florestan In The Dungeon
- The Four Overtures And Plot Outline
- Entrance Of Pizarro
- Leonore Releases Florestan From His Chains
- Act I: Marzelline And Jaquino
- The Prisoners' Chorus - 'O Welche Lust!'
- Finale - 'Liberation From Tyranny'
- Leonore Reveals Her True Identity
- Introduction To 'Fidelio'
- Melodrama - Leonore And Rocco Dig The Grave
- Leonore Learns Her Husband's Fate
- Quartet: Marzelline, Leonore, Rocco, Jaquino
- Leonore - Recitative And Aria - 'Abscheulicher!'