2008 – National Opera House, Wexford
The new 7,235sqm purpose-designed opera house contains two theatres the principal auditorium 780 seats,
The new 7,235sqm purpose-designed opera house contains two theatres the principal auditorium 780 seats,
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.
Opera lovers across the globe have been flocking to Ireland for the Wexford Festival Opera for the past half a century.
The Office of Public Works Architects with Keith Williams Architects’ new Wexford Opera House officially opens today. The 33 million (27 million),
The building would set new standards for theatre design and, specifically for opera house design in Ireland, the Minister for Arts,