Arts

WFO: ‘Guglielmo Ratcliff’ Review

by 03/11/15 12:16pm

Guglielmo Ratcliff By Pietro Mascagni At the National Opera House Review: Tom Mooney Successfully resuscitating an opera fossilised by neglect or indifference, such as Guglielmo Ratcliff, a tragedia in four acts, though with an approximate performance time of two hours,...

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WFO: ‘Le pre aux clercs’ Review

by 03/11/15 12:16pm

Le Pre aux clercs By Ferdinand Herold At the National Opera House Review: Tom Mooney For director Eric Ruf, modernising a space dripping with antiquity doesn’t interest him, and with a sumptuously staged Le Pre aux clercs, he remains faithful...

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WFO: ‘Koanga’ Review

Koanga By Frederick Delius At the National Opera House Review: Tom Mooney On reflection, Koanga by Delius contains some memorable...

Tuesday, 03/11/15 - 11:46am Read More

WFO: ‘Portraits de Manon’ Review

Portraits de Manon By Jules Massenet White’s Hotel Review: Tom Mooney Unlike Tosca, this production of Portraits de Manon came...

Tuesday, 03/11/15 - 11:44am Read More

WFO: ‘Tosca’ Review

Tosca By Giacomo Puccini White’s Hotel Review: Tom Mooney Unusual for a ShortWork at White’s, the production team didn’t take...

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WFO: ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Review

Hansel and Gretel By Englebert Humperdinck White’s Hotel Review: Tom Mooney Wexford’s take on this famous opera based on the...

Tuesday, 03/11/15 - 11:40am Read More

Ghost Radio at Infusion Cafe

Review by Richard Connolly It is a brave writer who puts on a serious play in a time of economic...

Monday, 26/10/15 - 12:34pm Read More

The Whistling Girl with Honor Heffernan

By Louise McCarthy THE FIRST Irish female rock singer will be performing a unique show with music set to poetry...

Tuesday, 30/06/15 - 12:33pm Read More

Frankenstein Bolts launch debut video

LOCAL ROCK band, Frankenstein Bolts, will unveil their debut video in Sky and the Ground, Wexford, this week. On Tuesday,...

Monday, 01/06/15 - 3:52pm Read More

Jesus rocks!

EVEN BY its own extremely high standards this year’s production of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ by New Ross Musical Society was...

Thursday, 26/03/15 - 10:16am Read More

An exhibition by an artist “who wanted to be a Pope”

“PAUL NEVER did things by half, he always aimed high. When he was five or six years old if you...

Monday, 23/02/15 - 11:12pm Read More

Jim’s journey in a land ‘Divided’

AN AMBITIOUS new exhibition of photography, detailing the effects of conflict between Israel and Palestine, will open at Wexford Arts...

Tuesday, 10/02/15 - 10:49am Read More

Sinfonia on Fire

Wexford Sinfonia Overture to Zampa (Herold) Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major KV 364 (Mozart) Symphony No 2 in C...

Wednesday, 28/01/15 - 1:10pm Read More

U.S. elections to come to New Ross

THE RACE for the White House will come to New Ross next week with one of the prime contenders for...

Thursday, 22/01/15 - 12:11pm Read More

Panto society to celebrate 50th

A 50th anniversary is something to be proud of under any circumstances but when it involves a group or society...

Wednesday, 07/01/15 - 9:50am Read More

Has Helena got ‘the voice’?

A SINGER from the New Ross district will be representing Wexford on the RTE talent show, ‘The Voice’, next weekend....

Wednesday, 07/01/15 - 9:45am Read More

Wexford Festival: the reviews 2014

Salome (By Antoine Mariotte) National Opera House Review Tom Mooney   Decapitations feature prominently in Western art: the mythical Perseus...

Monday, 03/11/14 - 6:24pm Read More

First Gorey fringe event for the Wexford Opera Festival

Geraldine Blake, with kids, Emily and Gracie Kirkland enjoying the exhibition at Market House Design. Market House Design, an initiative...

Tuesday, 21/10/14 - 10:09pm Read More

Robert Stone/ Augustin Hadelich

  Death of the Black Haired Girl By Robert Stone Review: Tom Mooney Robert Stone is a writer’s writer, a...

Wednesday, 24/09/14 - 2:59pm Read More

The Cask of Moonlight By Patrick Kehoe

  Review: Tom Mooney Whether The Cask of Moonlight is exclusively a homage to Barcelona or a homage to love is debatable,...

Tuesday, 09/09/14 - 1:43pm Read More