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Slavery and Voodoo: Delius’ Koanga opens the 64th Wexford Festival

By Mark Pullinger, 22 October 2015
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“Nozuko Teto... a glorious, full lyric soprano which gleams throughout its range”
Reviewed at National Opera House: O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford on 21 October 2015
Programme
Delius, Koanga
Performers
Wexford Festival Opera
Stephen Barlow, Conductor
Michael Gieleta, Director
James Macnamara, Set Designer
Sarah Roberts, Costume Designer
Norman Garrett, Koanga
Nozuko Teto, Palmyra
Kate Allen, Clotilda
Christopher Robertson, Don José Martinez
Aubrey Allicock, Onkel Joe, Rangwan
Jeffrey Gwaltney, Simon Perez
Eleanor Garside, Hélène
Frances Israel, Jeanne
Maria Hughes, Marie
Rachel Croash, Renée
Emma Watkinson, Aurore
Vivien Conacher, Hortense
Laura Murphy, Olive
Natalie Sinnott, Paulette
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.