Barry: Importance Being Earnest

Hannigan; Tantsits; Bloom; Karolyi; Summers; Ewing; Bevan; Hart; BCMG; Ades

Composed by: Barry, Gerald

The Importance of Being Earnest, Gerald Barry's riotous opera, brings out the savagery beneath the genteel Edwardian manners of Wilde's play. It received its world premiere staging at Opéra national de Lorraine à Nancy in 2013. 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) 'It’s all completely bonkers…I came out grinning. What more can you ask?' (The Telegraph)

Price: $27.98