The local community has always taken pride of place when it comes to Wexford Festival Opera, and this year that relationship is going a step further with the staging of a community opera project.
The time is right for audiences to see a comic opera, to leave the problems of the world outside of the theater door: “It is certainly a reaction to the times, where you know audiences are looking to forget about the news and to have a fun time,” says composer Michael Ching.