As booking for this year’s Wexford Festival Opera opens, Opera buff Raymond Blake shares everything visitors need to know
As booking for this year’s Wexford Festival Opera opens, plans are underway for this autumn’s programme, on stage and off. Opera buff Raymond Blake reports …
For the past 17 years, I have been a regular at the Festival and have spent much of that time championing it as a cultural jewel that commands a level of international respect and admiration that many Irish people are not aware of. It occupies a unique place in the operatic firmament and, over a span of seven decades and counting, it has proved to be remarkably vibrant, creative and imaginative, sustained by constant innovation and inspired, not inhibited, by what has gone before.
Management of such a diverse and ambitious programme of events calls for a staffing level that would not be sustainable without the legion of volunteers who, strictly speaking, are amateurs but only in the French sense of– great lovers of opera who are well capable of executing their assigned tasks to a professional level.
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