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The Importance of Being Earnest
Opera in 3 acts based on the text by Oscar Wilde
Libretto prepared by the composer
Product number: ED 13527
Edition: Study score
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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.
Orchestral Cast
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)
Cast
John Worthing · tenor - Algernon Moncrieff · bass-baritone - Cecily Cardew · soprano - Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax · mezzo-soprano - Miss Prism · contralto - Lady Bracknell · bass - Lane / Merriman · bass - male chamber choir (tenors and basses) in act 1 only, pre-recorded
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Title:
The Importance of Being Earnest
Opera in 3 acts based on the text by Oscar Wilde
Libretto prepared by the composer
Edition:
Study score
Level of difficulty:
difficult
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
2009 - 2010
Duration:
90 ′
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director & Barbican Centre, London
Title:
The Importance of Being Earnest
Opera in 3 acts based on the text by Oscar Wilde
Libretto prepared by the composer
Language:
English
Edition:
Study score
Level of difficulty:
difficult
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
2009 - 2010
Duration:
90 ′
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director & Barbican Centre, London
Title:
The Importance of Being Earnest
Opera in 3 acts based on the text by Oscar Wilde
Libretto prepared by the composer
Language:
English
Edition:
Study score
Level of difficulty:
difficult
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
2009 - 2010
Duration:
90 ′
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director & Barbican Centre, London
Technical Details
Product number:
ED 13527
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3394-7
Product number:
ED 13527
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3394-7
Weight:
1,04 kg
Pages:
318
Format:
21cm x 29.7cm
Binding:
Paperback/Softcover
Product number:
ED 13527 Q17486
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3394-7
Pages:
318
File format:
(PDF / 2,99 MB)
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