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2 Events on Sunday the 2nd of November, 2008
TUTTI IN MASCHERA, Everyone in Disguise
If Opera singers are always talking about themselves, the same might be said of the works they perform: Tutti in maschera is an opera…..about opera!
- Carlo Pedrotti
- IN JOKES AND OUT-TAKES
- (Sung in Italian with English Surtitles)
In this updated telling of Pedrotti’s masterpiece, the action is set in Italy in the aftermath of the Second World War It’s a time when lots of theatrical artists are touring around the devastated countryside of Italy looking for work, hungry for glory and fame—or just plain hungry!—but things are looking up for one particular group of singers: a wealthy foreigner has come to Venice to recruit his own opera company. His criteria for casting the main female roles, however, comes under suspicion, and there’s another problem too: when the entire impoverished company is invited by the unscrupulous impresario to a masked ball at La Fenice (Venice’s famous opera house), how will they come up with the necessary sumptuous costumes?
Book NowCarmina 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
