Paul Herriott brings us quite an operatic re-discovery from Wexford Festival Opera 2023 with Camille Erlanger's L'Aube rouge or 'Red Dawn'.

It just wouldn't be an opera without that inevitable love story and tonight's plot features Olga, sung by Andreea Soare, who was born into a reactionary military family and joins an armed struggle to fight against the unfair treatment of her people. She swears eternal love to Serge sung by Andrew Morstein but alas, as Romeo and Juliet teach us, these star-crossed lovers will not have an easy life. Guillaume Tourniaire conducts the Wexford Festival Opera Orchestra and Chorus. (First broadcast 4th November 2023)