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Emmanuel Chabrier's An Incomplete Education and Gioacchino Rossini's The Marriage Contract

Kishani Jaysinghe, left, as Gontran and Paula Murrihy, as his wife Helen, star in the Wexford Festival's production of Chabrier's opera An Insufficient Education.

Wexford Festival Opera (Wexford, Ireland)

July 31, 2010, 1:00 pm

Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier and Gioacchino Rossini
Conductor: Christopher Franklin

 

Cast: CHABRIER CAST: Kashani Jayasinghe (Gontran de Boismassif); Pauly Murrihy (Hèléne de la Cerisaie); Luca Dall’Amico (Maître Pausanias)
ROSSINI CAST: Cakar Pervin (Fanny); Giovanni Bellavia (Tobias Mill); Giulio Pelligra (Edward Milfort); Vittorio Prato (Slook); Luca Dall’Amico (Nortor); Annie Gill (Fanny’s Chambermaid)

 

This fascinating double-bill from Ireland presents one act operas by two very different, but oddly complementary composers. Chabrier’s comedy features a pair of newlyweds who aren’t quite sure what comes next on their wedding night. Rossini’s farce involves a sly young English woman who narrowly avoids shipment to Canada as a mail-order bride.

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