Wexford Festival Opera: Love, debt and obsession at the roulette table in Prokofiev’s ‘The Gambler’
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- Irish Times Culture·2h agoWexford Festival Opera 2026: The Gambler review – Challenging Prokofiev comes to life in five-star production
Ivan Popovsky directs a strong cast that includes the Irish tenors Gavan Ring and Seán Tester as the Wexford Festival Opera Orchestra plays a blinder
Read at Irish Times Culture → - Irish Independent·10h agoWexford Festival Opera: Love, debt and obsession at the roulette table in Prokofiev’s ‘The Gambler’
Based on Dostoevsky’s novel, the opera follows a tutor whose love for Polina becomes entangled with addiction, humiliation and financial ruin
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