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Fri 09 Sep 2008Inside Wexford's giant cello
Ahead of the theatre's official opening tonight, the decision to rebuild Wexford Opera House on its original Theatre Royal site looks to have been the right one, aesthetically, acoustically and financially, reports Frank McDonald, Environment Editor.
THE UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES of Wexford's old Theatre Royal as an opera house were its intimacy and eccentricity. Nowhere else in the world could you hear and see an obscure opera being performed in a theatre shoehorned in behind terraced houses on an utterly domestic little street.
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