Pádraig Grant's Wexford

29/01/2026

27/10/2024

An Taoiseach Simon Harris TD paying a courtesy call at the Wexford Festival Opera today.


Photograph © Pádraig Grant

23/10/2024

What a concert! Artistic Director of Wexford Festival Opera, Rosetta Cucchi, accompanied Italian bass-baritone Paola Bordogna in a scintillating recital at the O'Reilly Theatre today.



Photos © Pádraig Grant/WFO2024

23/10/2024

Photos from the Lunchtime Recitals at St Iberius as part of the 73rd Wexford Festival Opera.
Photos © Pádraig Grant

22/10/2024

Presenting an image from my occasional series of 'people who make the Festival what it is'.......

Nicky Pender, diamond and Facilities Manager

20/10/2024

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!

'Le Convenienze ed le Inconvenienze teatrali' at Wexford Festival Opera

10/10/2024

My photograph of conductor Ciarán McAuley graces the cover of the Wexford People newspaper Wexford Festival Opera supplement. Maestro McAuley will conduct the Stanford opera 'The Critic' at this year's festival.

'Ciarán McAuley' October 2024 #
Photo © Pádraig Grant

24/09/2024

Photographs from the magical, recent Wexford Festival Opera County Wexford Culture Night performance by soprano Ava Dodd and baritone Giorgi Lomiseli accompanied by Luca Capoferri on piano.

Photo © Pádraig Grant

06/09/2024

Crescent Quay, Wexford
1987 © Pádraig Grant

05/09/2024

I usually show the 'busier' version of this photograph; it's exactly the same as this but with the addition of the early morning Rosslare to Dublin train trundling along it. This is the other photo I shot on that glorious morning back in summer 1988.

!Nerd alert!

The camera was a YashicaMat 124G twin lens reflex and on Kodak Tri-x, developed in Microdol-x.
I pre-exposed the film, taking it up to threshold, to achieve deeper shadow detail. The early morning sunlight meant a very contrasty morning and as one "exposes for the highlights and develops for the shadows" this was the best technique to achieve a long tonal scale.

End of nerd alert!

'The Woodenworks' 1988
Photograph © Pádraig Grant

26/08/2024

Lottie Mae, one of my two favourite subjects, photographed on Rowe Street on Saturday last.

Photo © Pádraig Grant

23/08/2024

Read all about my old buddy in the local paper.
Wexford Festival Opera

Fresh from a world tour with mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato, Colin Murphy is gearing up for this year’s Wexford Festival Opera of which he is technical director. While this is a new role for Colin he is not new to the festival having started his career backstage with the Wexford Light Opera Company,...