‘Groggy with joy after three days of unparalleled delight that is to be had in the bottom right-hand corner of Ireland every year in late autumn.’
That's how the late Bernard Levin reported on his first visit to the Wexford Festival in 1967.
Nowadays, there's both a festival and a fringe – some 80 events during this year's 17-day festival. The centre still holds: three rarely-heard operas played in three separate cycles.
Some visitors do two cycles: the first to
