Director Rosetta Cucchi is looking forward to anniversary celebrations after a tough lockdown

Michael Gallen’s Straymaker, Wexford Festival Opera and Irish National Opera make list

Artistic director Francis Humphrys is responding to Covid by adding more shows

First-rate soloists and the Wexford Factory enliven binge-watching this year’s Wexford Festival Opera online, a Festival in the Air

Waiting for Shakespear...The Festival in the Air is an eight-day online celebration

Building projects prove more time consuming than artistic changes as self-preservation prevails

It has become clear over the years that whatever it is they like, they call it traditional

Rosetta Cucchi, who brings an open-hearted warmth to her task, has chosen ‘Shakespeare’ for 2020

Wexford Festival Opera: Andrew Synnott’s skilful music faces a riot of onstage activity

Synnot will be first living Irish composer to have work featured on main stage of Wexford Festival Opera

Rosetta Cucchi thought she was in the wrong place when she first arrived at Theatre Royal

State investment in the arts marked but Ireland remains below European average

Italian-born Rosetta Cucchi has been involved with the festival since 1995

‘Medea’ misses the mark while ‘Risurrezione’ goes down a storm