{"id":300,"date":"2012-07-04T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=300"},"modified":"2012-07-04T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:17:40","slug":"wexford-festival-opera-amends-2012-festival-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Wexford Festival Opera amends 2012 Festival Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wexford Festival Opera, renowned for staging rarely-performed or unjustly neglected operas, had hoped to produce Francesca da Rimini by Saverio Mercadante at the 2012 Festival. Although Francesca da Rimini was written in 1831 it had never been performed, as the opera house it was written for burned to the ground before the opera could be produced. While a hand-written manuscript of the opera is in existence, it has never been printed. Attempts by Wexford Festival Opera to have a critical performing edition of the manuscript published in time for the 2012 Festival became fraught with unanticipated difficulties and forced the organisation to change its plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, Artistic Director David Agler has several operas waiting in the wings and is delighted to announce that the rarely-performed Italian opera, L\u2019Arlesiana by Francesco Cil\u00e8a will now open the 61st Wexford Festival Opera on Wednesday, 24 October, 2012.<\/p>\n

L\u2019Arlesiana 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\u2019Arlesiana tells the story of Federico, a farmer, who is madly in love with a woman from the village of Arles (l\u2019arlesiana) and becomes entangled in a love-triangle. The opera is based on the play L\u2019Arl\u00e9sienne (1872) by Alphonse Daudet. Soon after its premi\u00e8re, L\u2019Arlesiana fell into oblivion but enjoyed a revival in the 1930s when it benefited from political support through Cil\u00e8a\u2019s personal contact with Mussolini. While the opera as a whole isn\u2019t well-known, most opera-lovers will be familiar with the tenor aria, \u00c8 la solita storia.<\/p>\n

Wexford Festival Opera will also stage Le Roi malgr\u00e9 lui by Emmanuel Chabrier, sung in French and A Village Romeo and Juliet by Frederick Delius, sung in English as originally announced. Full details of the creative teams and cast will be announced shortly, as will the details of the daytime performances of ShortWork operas, concerts and recitals.<\/p>\n

The 61st Wexford Festival Opera is grant-aided by the Arts Council, F\u00e1ilte Ireland, and Wexford County & Borough Councils.<\/p>\n

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61st Wexford Festival Opera<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, 24 October \u2013 Sunday, 4 November, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRIORITY BOOKING commences Tuesday, 8 May, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

GENERAL BOOKING commences Tuesday, 5 June, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

L\u2019Arlesiana by Francesco Cil\u00e8a (1866 \u2013 1950)<\/strong><\/p>\n

24, 27, 30 October, 2 November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Le Roi malgr\u00e9 lui by Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 – 1894)<\/strong><\/p>\n

25, 28, 31 October, 3 November<\/p>\n

A Village Romeo and Juliet by Frederick Delius (1862 – 1934)<\/strong><\/p>\n

26, 29 October, 1, 4 November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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