Wexford Festival Opera reviews: A whiff of Gilbert & Sullivan from enjoyable production of The Critic 

A revival of Pietro Mascagni’s Le Maschere  also featured among the early highlights of the Wexford event 

A scene from The Critic by Charles Villers Stanford, at Wexford Festival Opera. Picture: Patricio Cassinoni

The Critic; Le Maschere, Wexford Festival Opera 

 Wexford Festival eschewed tragedy, the usual mode of grand opera and chose three comic operas as the main productions at the 73rd annual festival. Theatre within Theatre was the theme for this year’s festival.