Series Wexford Opera Festival programmes

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The programmes for the performances at the annual opera festival held towards the end of October in the small Irish port of Wexford. The festival started in 1951 and hence the order number here is the number of each festival.Typically the three main operas each year are rarely performed works often by relatively little-known composers but all carefully selected for interest and quality. In recent years there have been some newly commissioned works. It has been said that there is one for the head, one for the heart and one for fun.Up to 2005 the main venue was the old, and rather cramped, town theatre. In 2006-7 this was winkled out of its site and replaced by a beautiful, state-of-the-art opera house. (English, Unclassified)