The Importance of Being Earnest

This listing is in the past

Royal Opera House: Linbury TheatreBow Street Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Barry, Gerald (b. 1952)

Performers

Ramin Gray	Director
Tim Murray	Conductor		2013 Jun 14
Britten Sinfonia			2013 Jun 14
Paul Curievici	Tenor	John Worthing	2013 Jun 14
Geoffrey Dolton	Baritone	Rev. Canon Chasuble	2013 Jun 14
Alan Ewing	Bass	Lady Bracknell	2013 Jun 14
Stephanie Marshall	Mezzo-soprano	Gwendolen Fairfax	2013 Jun 14
Benedict Nelson	Baritone	Algernon Moncrieff	2013 Jun 14
Hilary Summers	Mezzo-soprano	Miss Prism	2013 Jun 14
Simon Wilding	Bass	Lane/Merriman	2013 Jun 14
Ida Falk Winland	Soprano	Cecily Cardew	2013 Jun 14

Reviews of The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Ramin Gray

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Barbican Theatre, London, March 2016

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Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest staged at the ROH Linbury Studio

Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, 17th June

Interviewed at the Barbican Centre last year, Stephen Fry described Gerald Barry’s score for The Importance of Being Earnest (2010) rather unfavourably as “taking a machete to a soufflé”. However, this zany opera based on Oscar Wilde’s classic play of 1895 has already emerged victorious from concert premières in Los Angeles and London.

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