Classical Notes: Wexford Festival Opera to return with all guns blazing

Director Rosetta Cucchi is determined to make a splash with a programme of more than 50 separate events this October

Rosetta Cucchi has amassed an agenda of more than 50 separate events, many of them with live audiences that adhere to the social restrictions of the day.

For opera fans who are down in the dumps and suffering from aria deprivation, there is no better person to provide a mighty injection of good cheer than Wexford Festival Opera’s Rosetta Cucchi. The Italian dynamo gives the air of an Olympic sprinter willing to ignore the starting pistol just to get the 70th festival off to a belter, and put Wexford opera right back where it belongs – out front.

There is no doubt ...