A ship off the coast of Florida is becalmed, and the sailors are heard voicing their fears as the Spanish nobleman Solano (Dominick Chenes) sings of his obsession with the fountain of youth he has learned of and come to discover. Thunder announces the approach of a storm that hurls the ship to destruction. On the Florida coast, the young American Indian girl Watawa (Axelle Saint-Cirel) finds Solano, seemingly the sole survivor, and very weak. And so, the story unfolds as Francesco Cilluffo conducts the Wexford Festival Opera Orchestra and Chorus in this production which was recorded on Sunday 19th October in the National Opera House in Wexford.
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 25th October, 7pm-10pm
