Glyndebourne apart, no music festival has been more important to the operatic ecology of these islands than the one started in the autumn of 1951 in the famously friendly old fishing town of Wexford in southern Ireland.
From the outset, the revival of neglected operas has been its thing. Today, 205 operas on, it continues to astonish and reward.
Little-known Donizetti has long been a speciality – none more important than this year's staging of , the 24-year-old Donizetti's
