Based on Dostoyevsky’s novel, Prokofiev’s The Gambler opens @ the @NatOperaHouse @WexfordOpera tonight. Igor Onishchenko, Sophie Gordeladze, Alexei Botnarciuc, @HilaryGinther star in this dark comedy about gambling addiction: director Ivan Popovsky & conductor Valentin Uryupin.

Tonight @WexfordOpera 4 former Wexford novices - - now world stars - return to celebrate 75 years of the event in the Anniversary Concert ‘Croí na Féile (Heart of the Festival): @ErmonelaJaho, @BarcellonaDani, @Maltesetenor & Giorgi Manoshvili appear; Daniele Callegari conducts.

This afternoon @WexfordOpera you can catch a piano-accompanied revival of 19th/20th-century Anglo-Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford’s Much Ado About Nothing, premiered at Covent Garden back in 1901: Christopher Knopp is music director & Aoife Spillane-Hinks directs.

Delivered with boldness & commitment, the virtues of the composer's score are encapsulated in conductor Francesco Cilluffo's vivid realistion. 4 stars from me in @TheStage for Iris @wexfordopera

Later today it’s the turn of Rossini’s outrageous comedy L’equivoco stravagante (The Bizarre Misunderstanding), banned after just three performances in 1811: there's a rumour that Ernestina is in reality a castrato called Ernesto. Riccardo Bisatti conducts Max Hoehn’s production.

This afternoon @WexfordOpera launches a pocket-opera revival of Irish 19th-century composer William Balfe’s comedy The Rose of Castile (1857) -- the first opera ever staged at the Wexford Festival back in 1951. Heather Hadrill directs and Rebecca Warren is music director.

Opening tonight, the first mainstage show at this year’s @WexfordOpera is Mascagni’s Japanese opera Iris (1898). Festival artistic director @RosettaCucchi stages the piece with @FrancescoCillu1 conducting. Cast led by @Maltesetenor, Leyla Gu, Jihoon Kim & @JolyonLoy.

. @WexfordOpera opens this evening with a new community immersive opera/installation by Ailís Ní Ríain: Still, Life is ‘a meditation on what endures when everything passes’ based on a story by William Goyen. Noeline Kavanagh directs.

Intrepid @NewSussexOpera opens Paul Higgins’ production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s David and Jonathan @ the Windmill Theatre, Hove, tonight. @TobyPurser1 conducts this rare staging of one of the masterpieces of French Baroque opera. Tours until October 25.

To Leeds tonight where @Opera_North opens its season with a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin @GrandTheatreLS1; John Brancy sings Onegin with Verity Wingate as Tatyana, Caspar Singh as Lensky & Joshua Bloom as Gremin. Garry Walker conducts Patrick Nolan’s staging.

To the @RBO_org for a new Parsifal by Evgeny Titov conducted by @HrusaJakub. Stanislas de Barbeyrac sings the title-role, with Ekaterina @Gubanovamezzo as Kundry, @BrinSherratt as Gurnemanz, Christian Gerhaher as Amfortas & Mark Stone as Klingsor. ‘Here Time Becomes Space’