Andrew Synnott is an Irish composer. In 2017 he became the first living Irish composer to have an opera staged at Wexford Festival Opera with the premiere of Dubliners. Wexford commissioned two further operas from him; La cucina, premiered at the festival in 2019 and What Happened To Lucrece, premiere Wexford 2020. Synnott is also active as a conductor, including conducting from the piano his own reduction of '' The Tales of Hoffmann'' for

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in 2018. He has conducted many opera performances in Ireland and abroad and has conducted the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the RTE Concert Orchestra and the National Chamber Choir of Ireland.

Works

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" *''La Cucina'' (2019),

Wexford Opera Festival Wexford Festival Opera () is an opera festival that takes place in the town of Wexford in south-eastern Ireland during the months of October and November. The festival began in 1951 under Tom Walsh and a group of opera lovers who quickly gener ...

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