Fifteen years later, when Walsh retired as artistic director, the 11,500 townspeople of Wexford were playing host to an established annual event, now with three operas per season, a wealth of visiting talent from home and abroad, and a burgeoning reputation for repertoire that was, in the doctor’s words, “seldom if ever performed”. The success of his vision can now be measured in the gleaming purpose-built theatre that has been the festival’s nerve centre since 2008.

Walsh’s grá for lesser-known 19th-century Italian material has by and large been upheld by his six successors, for nearly all of whom the back-catalogues of Donizetti and Rossini in particular have proved rich veins. But the scope has broadened: of the 162 operas so far presented on Wexford’s main stage, just over one in eight has dated from the 17th or 18th centuries, and almost a quarter are from the 20th century.

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