Saturday November 1st: Irish National Opera presents Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
Donizetti's heartwarming comedy features some wonderful bel canto singing as the spunky landowner and the hapless peasant search for love. Radiant soprano Claudia Boyle sings the role of Adina, trading barbs and embraces with tenor Duke Kim as Nemorino. John Molloy as the outlandish rogue 'doctor' Dulcamara. Baritone Gianluca Margheri is Belcore and soprano Deirdre Higgins is Adina's friend Giannetta. L'elisir d'amore is conducted by Erina Yashima and directed by Cal McCrystal
Saturday November 8th: Mozart's La clemenza di Tito with Tara Erraught
Love, betrayal and political intrigue ignite Mozart's final opera. Step into ancient Rome with Mozart's La clemenza di Tito. Vitellia, sung by Tara Erraught, daughter of a former emperor, seeks to regain the throne as Emperor Tito's wife. When Tito, sung by Giovanni Sala chooses another bride, she schemes her way through the Roman Empire, manipulating Tito's closest ally into attempting assassination. What follows is a web of guilt, betrayal and confessions, leading to the ultimate test of mercy and forgiveness. Written in the year of the composer's death, La clemenza di Tito is loosely inspired by the life of the first-century Roman Emperor, Titus. Mozart's dramatic score sets a tale of political intrigue and personal jealousy alight. Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus in tonight's production recorded at the Edinburgh International Festival 2025.
Saturday November 15th: RTÉ Concert Orchestra Opera Gala with Claudia Boyle
Join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for an evening of emotional operatic highs and lows with some of opera's most ravishing arias. Conducted by Wexford Festival Opera's guest conductor Francesco Cilluffo, who brings 'An instinctive feeling for Italianate lyricism' (New York Times), and featuring four of opera's extraordinary singers including the phenomenal soprano Claudia Boyle, mezzo-soprano Axelle Saint-Cirel, tenor Eduardo Niave and baritone Giorgi Lomiseli join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. The programme pays homage to this year's Wexford Festival Opera theme of myths and legends, including Bizet's Habanera from Carmen, Puccini's O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi and Verdi's Quando le sere al placido from Luisa Miller.Presented by Wexford Festival Opera and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Claudia Boyle, soprano
Axelle Saint-Cirel, mezzo-soprano
Eduardo Niave, tenor
Giorgi Lomiseli, baritone
Francesco Cilluffo, conductor
