Eithne Corrigan News Today

The Gorey Choral Group recently won 1st prize at the Arklow Music Festival on Sunday, March 10.

The Wexford Festival Singers have announced that its annual festival concert will take place in Rowe Street Church on Sunday, November 5 at 2.30 p.m.

There is simply no better place to be in Ireland in October than Wexford, when the town becomes a hive of cultural activity to celebrate the annual Wexford Festival Opera. Now in its 72nd year, Wexford Festival Opera continues to amaze and delight in equal measure, when operatic performers from all over the world convene at the National Opera House for two weeks of world-class opera.

Tickets are now on sale for the the much-anticipated Wexford Light Opera Society’s Hits from The Musicals which runs from Monday, October 30 to Thursday, November 2 inclusive, during the Wexford Opera Festival, in Clayton Whites Hotel at 8 p.m. nightly.

The Wexford Light Opera Society (WLOS) has officially launched its production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame ahead of its six night run in The National Opera House later this month. Opening on April 24 the show will feature the best of Wexford’s local talent and its multi-award winning chorus, the production team for the musical includes director Thomas O’Leary, musical director Fintan Cleary, choreographer Aisling Doyle, and chorus mistress Eithne Corrigan.

This time last year, as the coronavirus began to infiltrate Irish society, the members of Wexford Sinfonia were rehearsing for their highly-anticipated Music in Movieland show which was due to take place on March 21. However, after much deliberation it was decided the show should be postponed and rescheduled for this summer, for July 10. But now, with restrictions unlikely to have eased sufficiently to host the show, Wexford Sinfonia has taken the difficult choice to push Music in Movieland int...