Gerald Barry - The Importance of Being Earnest
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Label: NMC Recordings
Cat No: NMCD197
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 22nd September 2014
Contents
Artists
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)Peter Tantsits (tenor)
Joshua Bloom (baritone)
Katalin Karolyi (mezzo-soprano)
Hilary Summers (contralto)
Alan Ewing (bass)
Benjamin Bevan (bass)
Joshua Hart (speaker)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Conductor
Thomas AdesWorks
The Importance of Being EarnestArtists
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)Peter Tantsits (tenor)
Joshua Bloom (baritone)
Katalin Karolyi (mezzo-soprano)
Hilary Summers (contralto)
Alan Ewing (bass)
Benjamin Bevan (bass)
Joshua Hart (speaker)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Conductor
Thomas AdesAbout
This release was made possible thanks to the generosity of trusts, foundations and individuals who donated to our 2013 Opera Appeal, the other two releases being Judith Weir's 'The Vanishing Bridegroom' and Harrison Birtwistle's 'Gawain'.
The Importance of Being Earnest was jointly commissioned by the LA Philharmonic and the Barbican in London, and received its world premiere staging at Opéra national de Lorraine à Nancy in 2013. Two further productions were staged the same year at the Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre, and on tour with NI Opera.
The Importance of Being Earnest received a 2013 RPS Award for Large-Scale Composition. ‘The world now has something rare: a new genuinely comic opera and maybe the most inventive Oscar Wilde opera since Richard Strauss's Salome more than a century ago.’ - The Los Angeles Times
Gerald Barry's riotous opera brings out the savagery beneath the genteel Edwardian manners of Wilde's play: its score includes gunshots, whistling and speaking from the orchestral players, marching boots, and the smashing of 40 dinner plates, while its characters – among them Lady Bracknell sung by a bass and Cecily by a stratospheric soprano – shout at each other through gales, quote Schiller's Ode to Joy (in German) and make polite conversation through megaphones.
'It’s all completely bonkers, but I went in grumping and came out grinning. What more can you ask?' - The Telegraph
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