The 2012 Wexford Opera Festival
24 October - 4 November 2012
Artistic Director David Agler has announced that the rarely-performed Italian opera,L’Arlesiana by Francesco Cilèa will open the 61st Wexford Festival Opera on Wednesday, 24 October, 2012. L’Arlesiana is a melodrama in three acts to a libretto by Leopoldo Marenco, first performed on 27 November 1897 at the Teatro Lirico di Milano in Milan. L’Arlesiana tells the story of Federico, a farmer, who is madly in love with a woman from the village of Arles (l’arlesiana) and becomes entangled in a love-triangle. The opera is based on the play L’Arlésienne (1872) by Alphonse Daudet. Soon after its première, L’Arlesiana fell into oblivion but enjoyed a revival in the 1930s when it benefited from political support through Cilèa’s personal contact with Mussolini. While the opera as a whole isn’t well-known, most opera-lovers will be familiar with the tenor aria, È la solita storia. Wexford Festival Opera will also stage Le Roi malgré lui by Emmanuel Chabrier, sung in French and
A Village Romeo and Juliet by Frederick Delius, sung in English.
Performance dates:
L'Arlesiana October 24|27|30 November 2
Le Roi malgré lui October 2528|31| November 3
A Village Romeo and Juliet October 26|29| November 1|4
Opera in Style has 3 and 4-night packages available with flights to nearby Waterford on Aer Arann from Luton; or, to Dublin from London Heathrow [or your nearest regional airport]. Accommodation at Whites Hotel.
4-Day Tour Price Indication [per person]
From £875
This price includes: 3-nights' accommodation at Whites Hotel [based on double room] including breakfast, top category tickets for three performances, opera synopses.
