A Remarkable Festival Photographs from the Fiftieth Wexford Festival

For over fifty days each year Wexford town goes through a change. In early September over two hundred people from around the world arrive there to begin work on that year's programme, comprising three rare opera productions and as many as forty two other events. Thus begins an intensive four week rehearsal and three week performance period bringing about the interaction of these people, the people of Wexford and the Festival audiences, in the unique event that the Financial Times called "a remarkable festival". To mark the Fiftieth Festival, photographer and Wexfordian Pádraig Grant was commissioned by Wexford Festival to capture this interaction. These photographs give a flavour of Wexford at its most intensive and festive best, offering in Pádraig's own words "a stolen glimpse of Wexford at work". This book features an introduction by internationally acclaimed author Colm Tóibín and in addition there is a special history of the Festival by broadcaster and critic Ian Fox, along with comprehensive details of the operas, their casts and creative teams from fifty years at Wexford.