The Importance of Being Ernest Gerald Barry

Titel (DE): The Importance of Being Earnest - Opera in 3 acts based on the text by Oscar Wilde
Titel (EN): The Importance of Being Earnest - Opera in 3 acts based on the text by Oscar Wilde
Titel (FR): The Importance of Being Earnest - Opera in 3 acts based on the text by Oscar Wilde
Komponist / Composer: Barry, Gerald
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Besetzungsdetails: 1(pic).1(ca).1.bcl.2(2.cbsn)-2.2(1.Dtpt).1.1-timp.2perc(mar, vib, cym, s.d, b.d, chimes, wind machine, lion's roar, flex, large hammer, white dinner plates, telephone, jackboots, gun)-pno(cel)-str(1.1.1.1.1)
Kompositionsjahr / Date of Composition: 2009 - 2010
Aufführungsdauer / Duration: 90'
Verlag / Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Erscheindungsdatum / Date of Publishing: 28.01.2013
Ausgabe / Publication: Klavierauszug - Piano reduction -
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Seiten / Pages: 264
Verarbeitung: Ring-/Spiralbindung - Ring/Spiral binding
Schwierigkeitsgrad / Difficulty: - -
Sprache / Language: Englisch
Reihe / Series: Edition Schott
ISMN: M-2201-3268-1
ISMN-13: 979-0-2201-3268-1
ISMN-EAN: 9790220132681
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When asked what the theme of his play was, Wilde answered That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality". Gerald Barry's fifth opera based on the play is genuine comic with a dark heart. The previous four have remarkable libretti, but The Importance of Being Earnest, written in 1894, is all but perfect in its construction, and Barry's audacious approach triumphantly confounds all expectations. As Barry describes it: "The play's bones are unshatterable. My version is an X-ray of it." The musical references range from Beethoven to Schoenberg, all treated with a reckless panache and impish wit, by turns dazzling, startling and charming the audience.

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When asked what the theme of his play was, Wilde answered That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality". Gerald Barry's fifth opera based on the play is genuine comic with a dark heart. The previous four have remarkable libretti, but The Importance of Being Earnest, written in 1894, is all but perfect in its construction, and Barry's audacious approach triumphantly confounds all expectations. As Barry describes it: "The play's bones are unshatterable. My version is an X-ray of it." The musical references range from Beethoven to Schoenberg, all treated with a reckless panache and impish wit, by turns dazzling, startling and charming the audience.