OLD GHOSTS (Rigaki) Dublin 2023 Christopher Bowen, Jade Phoenix, William Gaunt, Doreen Curran
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Old Ghosts
- Composer: Rigaki Evangelia
- Libretto: Marina Carr Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Irish National Opera
- Recorded: February 4, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Christopher Bowen, Jade Phoenix, William Gaunt, Doreen Curran
- Conductor: Elaine Kelly
- Orchestra: Orchestra of Irish National Opera
Information about the Recording
- Published by: OperaVision
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
James Joyce and Nora Barnacle are living in Trieste. Joyce has embarked on his great enterprise, the composition of Ulysses. After a night on the town, he sits at his writing desk, working on his masterpiece. As he begins to write, he is visited by two ghosts, Homer and Penelope, who have a thing or two to say to him and to each other. As morning approaches, Joyce composes a letter to his aunt, inquiring after everyday Dublin life, details of which will become the thread of his iconic masterwork. Meanwhile, Nora pines for home, longing to return to her beloved west of Ireland.
Old Ghosts, the final episode of Ulysses 2.2 in response to the Penelope chapter of Ulysses, sees the world premiere of a new opera, with newly commissioned music by Evangelia Rigaki and text by Marina Carr. It imagines James Joyce in conversation with Nora Barnacle, Homer and Penelope herself as possible inspirations for the character of Molly Bloom and the final chapter of Ulysses.
Quoted from Irish National Opera