L'Arlesiana, Opera House, Wexford
Opera House, Wexford: Wexford opens its 61st festival - a regular haunt for those wishing to sample worthwhile operas that have fallen by the wayside - with The Girl from Arles by Francesco Cilea (1866-1950), based on a play by Daudet. It's not entirely unknown in the UK - Opera Holland Park has staged it twice, and there's a deservedly famous tenor aria which carries in its profound melancholy all the emo…