Inspired by ‘Ulysses’

“Sirens,” a new opera by the composer and conductor Victoria Bond, will have its world premiere on Monday at 7:30 p.m., at Symphony Space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, part of that venue’s Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, which was founded by Ms. Bond 20 years ago. The program will also include operas by William Anderson and Frank Brickle.

“Sirens” draws on episode 11 of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” for its inspiration. “The episode fascinates me,” Ms. Bond has said, “because of its profound humanity and its many musical references. The focus of the episode is Leopold Bloom, whose wife, Molly, a singer, is carrying on an affair with her vocal partner tenor, Blazes Boylan. Molly and Blazes are preparing to go on a concert tour together.”

She has characterized the episode as Joyce’s verbal equivalent to musical counterpoint. “He has called this a ‘fuga per canonem,’ assigning to each character the role of a musical line . . . I have set each section as a contrapuntal form, including canon, invention, fugue, and episodes connecting them.”

Ms. Bond, who has a house in East Hampton, is known locally for her Operatif lectures that precede some of the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD telecasts at Guild Hall.

Tickets for the program are $20, $30 the day of the show, and can be ordered on the Symphony Space website.