Joyce’s rare ould times get operatic

The curtain goes up on the 66th Wexford Festival Opera this coming Thursday

Anna Jeffers, Emma Nash, Andrew Gavin, Cormac Lawlor and Peter O’Donohue of the Opera Theatre Company at a rehearsal of DublinersPatrick Browne

Crowds will gather on the quays, the fireworks will explode over the town and the feverish last-minute vocal warm-ups will echo around the National Opera House on High Street before the curtain goes up on the 66th Wexford Festival Opera this coming Thursday.

There are, as always, three main evening operas to negotiate, but among the ancillary three short afternoon works, there is one that demands special attention for obvious reasons.

Dubliners is ...