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- Conductor: Stewart Robertson
- Director: Michael Barker-Caven
- Set designer: Joe Vanĕk
- Costume designer: Joe Vanĕk
- Lighting designer: Paul Keogan
- Key note: Michael Barker Caven – Director
"Perhaps the greatest challenge for both Director and designer in staging Richard Rodney Bennett’s Grand Guignol rollercoaster of an opera is to not give the game away!"
THE MINES OF SULPHUR
Operas - 17th Oct (20:00), 20th Oct (20:00), 23rd Oct (20:00), 26th Oct (20:00), 29th Oct (20:00), 1st Nov (20:00)
at Wexford Operahouse
A cast of low- lifes and a grim tale of murder, theft and amateur dramatics. The music is written in an exquisitely melancholy idiom.
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- OPERA THAT HURTS LIKE HELL…
- (Sung in English with English Surtitles)
The setting is a grand but decaying house in the West Country, where a gypsy who has been mistreated by the lord of the manor returns, with two accomplices, to take her revenge. He is duly murdered, but celebrations are cut short by the arrival of a troupe of actors seeking shelter for the night. They give a performance in exchange, although as the play progresses the subject matter tends too uncomfortably close to recent events for the liking of the three killers. Worse still, the actors discover the body of the owner of the house. A desperate plan is hatched: the gypsy and her two companions will lock the actors in the house, set fire to it and escape. Just as they are about to do so, however, it is revealed that the mysterious actors are carrying with them more than just their costumes and props…
prices from €40.00 to €720.00 - choose tickets below or return home ?
Please choose a date & time
Friday the 17th of October, 2008 - 20:00 at Wexford Operahouse
Monday the 20th of October, 2008 - 20:00 at Wexford Operahouse
Thursday the 23rd of October, 2008 - 20:00 at Wexford Operahouse
Sunday the 26th of October, 2008 - 20:00 at Wexford Operahouse
Wednesday the 29th of October, 2008 - 20:00 at Wexford Operahouse
Saturday the 1st of November, 2008 - 20:00 at Wexford Operahouse
| October/November 2008 | ||||||
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| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 |
"There are two big opera anniversaries this year: 150
years since the birth of Puccini, and 100 years since the death of
Rimsky-Korsakov. We are managing to celebrate both. The
choice of Snegurochka to the
main stage gives us an opportunity to introduce
audiences to a masterpiece very rarely performed outside Russia. Two long running themes of the Festival, the
exploration of neglected but worthy opera in English and
that of pre-Verdian Italian opera, are developed this year in the shape
of the Mines of
Sulphur and Tutti in
Maschera"
- David Agler - Artistic
Director
