Wexford is still singing and winning with Festival Opera

The venerable Festival Opera has another impressive programme for 2014, says Jo Kerrigan.

WEXFORD is humming. Singers, stage-hands, directors and designers from around the world are arriving as the town prepares for the Wexford Festival Opera, which opens next Wednesday.

Since it began in 1951, the festival has breathed new life into forgotten masterpieces, and reintroduced them to the canon, and established a reputation for award-winning productions.