Richard Bratby

One beauty – one turkey: Wexford Festival Opera reviewed

Charles Villiers Stanford's The Critic is utterly daft but also oddly beautiful, while Mascagni's Le maschere is landfill versimo

Wexford Festival Opera’s new production of Charles Villiers Stanford’s The Critic worked a charm. Credit: Patricio Cassinoni
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