three opera singers at Blackwater Valley Opera Festival with orchestra in the background

Bachtrack review: An Entertaining Don Pasquale to open the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival

Review for Bachtrack by 30 May 2019

Link to online review here

Staging an opera outdoors in Ireland is somewhat the equivalent of playing Russian roulette with the weather. Fortunately the rain clouds that threatened during the afternoon rolled away and we were able to enjoy Blackwater Valley Opera Festival’s entertaining production of Donizetti opera Don Pasquale in the soft gloaming in the ancient grounds of Lismore Castle in County Waterford….[more]

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