Pietro Mascagni
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Oct 20, 2026
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about some of the delights on offer at this special anniversary festival.
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Deirdre, the three main stage features are Iris by Mascagni, Equivoco Stravagante by Rossini and Prokofiev's The Gambler.
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Is there a theme linking any of
Deirdre FalveyCORRESPONDENT
them? Well, there is.
Suzanne NanceGUEST
There will be seven operas that we stage here at the Wexford Festival Opera.
Suzanne NanceGUEST
Tonight, we kick off with Iris or Iris by Mascagni, and we have our community opera, which you featured, and I love Brian Mullen.
Suzanne NanceGUEST
A star is born here in Wexford, which is really exciting.
Suzanne NanceGUEST
We have recitals all over the town.
Paul ClearyGUEST
And we have, as I said, the first opera, uh, opens tonight.
Paul ClearyGUEST
Uh, it's Iris by Mascagni, and that's directed by Rosetta.
Paul ClearyGUEST
That's for the heart.
Paul ClearyGUEST
The one for the funny bone, as she calls it, is L'Equivoco Stravagante by Rossini.
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Alan CorcoranHOST
Yeah
George LawlerGUEST
... who used to come in and rehearse over the summer and be joined by the professionals then when they arrived.
George LawlerGUEST
I sung in Iris, which is the opera, the Mascagni Iris is the opera for the opening night this year.
George LawlerGUEST
So very much looking forward to, uh, sitting back and enjoying the, uh, the wonderful music that no, no doubt will be there to enthrall the next applause.
Daniel GundlachHOST
That is, again, the excellent, excellent French-Italian soprano Adriana Maliponte, who was a mainstay at the Met, especially in the 1970s.
Daniel GundlachHOST
On that bonus episode, I featured a sampling of her relatively rare commercial recordings, and here, right now, I have a live recording of her performing Pietro Mascagni's Iris in a live performance from New Jersey State Opera in February 1988.
Daniel GundlachHOST
This is the hair-raising narrative, "Un dì ero pigina", in which she describes a hapless victim of pleasure as represented by an octopus that destroys even as it gives untold pleasure.
Daniel GundlachHOST
She raises the roof on this one.