The history of the Wexford Festival Opera, 1951-2021: In a place like no other
In 1951, the first ever Wexford Opera Festival (now known as ‘Wexford Festival Opera’) took place in a small town in the southeast corner of Ireland. What started out as an informal gathering of friends listening to gramophone music, developed into one of Europe’s leading classical music events. T.J. Walsh, a medical doctor by profession and an amateur musician, was the man whose novel idea it was to start an opera festival from such humble beginnings.
Karina Daly
- Four Courts Press Ltd
- 9781846829970
- 272 pages
- €40
- Hardback
- Ireland
- Opera
