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3 Events on Sunday the 26th of October, 2008
THE MINES OF SULPHUR
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…
Book NowSuor Angelica
Puccini’s personal favourite of the three pieces that make up his famous Trittico. This is the tragic story of Sister Angelica who has been confined to a convent for seven years in order to expiate the sin of an illicit liaison – but redemption for her is not in this life – Beautiful lush music with an all- female cast.
- Giacomo Puccini
- (Sung in Italian with English Surtitles)
Carmina Burana
Orff’s Carmina Burana is one of the best-known and best-loved pieces in the orchestral choral repertoire, a collection of (as he put it) profane songs based on a thirteenth-century Bavarian manuscript. This will be performed in a rare arrangement with two pianos and percussion.
- Carl Orff
In a break with recent tradition, this fixture of the Wexford Festival Calendar will be repeated, with performances on 26th October and 2nd November.
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"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
