{"id":3354,"date":"2024-06-14T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/?post_type=events&#038;p=3354"},"modified":"2024-06-18T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:20:17","slug":"bloomsday-festival-2024-james-joyce-and-antonio-smareglia","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/events\/bloomsday-festival-2024-james-joyce-and-antonio-smareglia\/","title":{"rendered":"James Joyce and Antonio Smareglia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bloomsday Festival 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>15 June 2024 at 6:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_744973289_444802662816_1_original.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_744973289_444802662816_1_original.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_744973289_444802662816_1_original-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_744973289_444802662816_1_original-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Smareglia (who lives beside me) is held by many to be the most original of the living Italian musicians.&#8221; <\/em>James Joyce, 1911<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us for <strong>James Joyce and Antonio Smargelia<\/strong> on <strong>June 15th at 7pm<\/strong>, a special Bloomsday Festival concert event that illustrates the connection between James Joyce, Antonio Smareglia, Trieste, and Pula. The concert features performances of music excerpts from operas by Smareglia, the Italian-Croatian composer who was a friend and neighbour of Joyce while they both lived in Trieste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maltese pianist <strong>Charlene Farrugia-Bo\u017eac<\/strong> and Croatian soprano <strong>Sofija Cingula<\/strong> will bring to life some of the music from operas that Joyce would have heard and admired at the time, from Smareglia&#8217;s student work\u00a0<em>Caccia lontana\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Nozze Istriane<\/em>\u00a0(which Joyce heard in Trieste in 1908) to fragments from\u00a0<em>Oceana<\/em>, Smareglia\u2019s most novel work of music theatre known as\u00a0<em>teatro di poesia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will include presentations by Croatian scholar <strong>Dr. Vito Paoleti\u0107<\/strong> (University of Pula) about Joyce&#8217;s time in Pula, as well as the city&#8217;s links to and celebrations of Bloomsday. Introduction about the musician Antonio Smareglia and his connection to James Joyce will be given by <strong>Dr. Juliana Licinic van Walstijn <\/strong>(Queen&#8217;s University Belfast), President of the Association Smaregliana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concert will be followed by a wine reception provided generously by the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Dublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concert is presented by Association Smaregliana in cooperation with the University of Pula and the James Joyce Centre and sponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Dublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are \u20ac15. 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