Delius: The Magic Fountain
National Opera House, Wexford
★★☆☆☆
Frederick Delius’s The Magic Fountain is by some margin the most neglected of this year’s main operas at Wexford Festival Opera. It was completed in 1895, first recorded before an invited audience by the BBC in London in 1977 (this was later issued on disc with some retakes), staged in Kiel in 1997, and produced by Scottish Opera in 1999.
Sadly, Wexford’s new production, directed by Christopher Luscombe, designed by Simon Hi
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