Columns linked to Riders to the Sea - Wexford Festival 2016

Wexford Opera Festival: Il Campanello, The Bear, Riders to the...

Helmut Pitsch

One of the pillars of the successful Wexford festival is the presentations of so called short works. One act operas composed in different centuries giving a strong testimony for the talent of their creators and constitute prestigious rarities of their genre and which have been unperformed unjustly. This year series is put together with two comic examples and one melodramatic. Gaetano Donizetti’s Il Campanello, the night bell, is a mature example of the genius composer full of...