Review: Wexford Festival Opera, Falstaff and What Happened To Lucrece
Francesca Federico and Rory Dunne in Falstaff Chronicles, at Wexford Festival Opera 2020. Picture: Pádraig Grant
These are bleak times for opera companies with grand plans scuppered by the tiny, invisible destroyer. The lights are out at the mighty Met Opera for now, al fresco performances have petered out as winter approaches and televised performances are the order of the day in many centres.
Wexford Festival has made a virtue of necessity and embraced technology to deliver an imaginative programme that preserves the original Shakespeare theme, repackaged in formats inspired by Netflix and television sit-coms.
