Organization

Wexford Festival Opera

Conductor

Luca Capoferri

Set designer

Massimo Carlotto

Costume designer

Singer

Baritone

Rory Musgrave

Gianni Schicchi

Soprano

Ami Hewitt

Lauretta

Federica Raja

Contralto

Deirdre Arratoon

Zita

Sarah Luttrell

Tenor

Conor Prendiville

Rinuccio

Hannah O’Brien

Nella

Leah Redmond

Corina Ignat

Bass

William Kyle

Betto di Signa

Peter Lidbetter

Simone

Eoin Foran

Marco

Mezzo-soprano

Marta Pluda

La Ciesca

Peter McCamley

Maestro Spinelloccio

Italian

Wexford

Ireland

Gianni Schicchi Puccini

Public

English

Approved

Wexford Festival Opera was founded by local volunteers and even today the local community are hugely involved in so many aspects of the festival. This year the community will be part of performance.

WFO believes that opera has the ability to speak to everyone and this year has developed a new concept in opera performance for Wexford - a Community Opera based on Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.

This year we have developed a Community Opera were local people will take part in a series of skills-building workshops throughout 2023 and, together with artists of the Wexford Factory, will create and present an immersive performance experience of music in a non-theatrical space; of an expanded version of Gianni Schicchi, with dialogue. Puccini’s masterpiece score includes one of opera’s most loved arias ‘O mio babbino caro’.

The much-loved opera will be performed in The Grain Store at Stonebridge, just off Wexford’s Quay front, where the audience will ‘promenade’ and move with the action, experiencing the opera by being a part of it and perhaps recognising themselves in it.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew