A collective triumph as Ulysses arrives in Ireland at last

Gyula Nagy and Raphaela Mangan in The Return of Ulysses PIc: Marshall Light Studio

The Return of Ulysses

Opera Collective Ireland

Gateway Theatre, Kilkenny

It took Ulysses 20 years to get back from the Trojan Wars to his faithful wife Penelope, but it has taken Monteverdi’s opera 378 years to get to Ireland. In fairness, it hasn’t been seen much anywhere else either, so Opera Collective Ireland can take pride in providing Irish audiences with a first look at an historic masterpiece created at the dawn of ...