James Joyce’s Dublin: Where Dubliners meet the sopranos

James Joyce’s famous short works are filled with music. Alan O’Riordan meets two gallants who decided to make them into an opera.

James Joyce’s Dublin is a world suffused with music – Molly Bloom’s arias, Bloom’s

reminisces on the same; lachrymose ballads; the popular light opera of the time; the performances, and lengthy discussions of singers and music in The Dead, itself recently made into an opera.