National Opera House, Wexford The Wexford festival opened with two contrasting works. Félicien David’s overblown opera about the eruption of Vesuvius was the less distinctiveThe first two operas of Wexford’s 2016 festival could scarcely be more different. Félicien David’s Herculanum is an overblown mid-19th-century French grand opera with all the trimmings (though here, the ballet is cut), while Samuel Barber’s Vanessa is an elusive piece of nostalgic late-Romanticism, subtly scored and essentia [...]
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