Wexford Festival Opera: Curtain up on a historic 70th year Director Rosetta Cucchi is looking forward to anniversary celebrations after a tough lockdown
Tue, May 11, 2021, 08:00
It’s been a tough 13 months in the arts, not just in Ireland, but also in Italy, where Wexford Festival Opera’s artistic director, Rosetta Cucchi, lives. “With the theatres closed it hasn’t been easy,” she says. “But, actually, I’ve recently completed a very exciting project. We made an opera movie, of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. ” The opera, which dates from 1902, is named after the 18th century French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur, who was celebrated for the naturalism of her style. “We put together the worlds of opera and theatre. We were working in the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and we decided to use not only the stage but the whole theatre. We turned the whole space into our set, the corridors, the boxes, the foyers. We made a real movie in the 18th century theatre. It was a s