Wayne’s world of theatre looking forward to first opera

Cathy Desmond talks to theatre director Wayne Jordan, ahead of his debut opera, Handel’s ‘Radamisto’, staged by Northern Ireland Opera

The form of the opera has been the biggest shock to the system. Energising a staging of a work full of repetition and da capo arias has been a technical challenge”

YOU wait ages for a Baroque opera and then three come along, all by Handel. Opera Theatre Company’s country and western production of ‘Acis and Galatea’ has just finished touring, and Northern Ireland Opera follow up their 2015 production of ‘Agrippina’ with an Irish premiere of ‘Radamisto’. It is director Wayne Jordan’s opera debut.