The importance of being earnest : opera in three acts / Gerald Barry ; libretto by Gerald Barry based on the text by Oscar Wilde.

Author/creator Barry, Gerald, 1952- composer.
Format Audio (CD)
PublicationLondon : NMC, 2014.
Copyright Date℗2012, ©2014
Description1 audio disc (1:19:49) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorHannigan, Barbara singer.
Other author/creatorKárolyi, Katalin singer.
Other author/creatorSummers, Hilary, singer.
Other author/creatorTantsits, Peter, singer.
Other author/creatorBloom, Joshua (Bass), singer.
Other author/creatorEwing, Alan, singer.
Other author/creatorBevan, Benjamin, singer.
Other author/creatorHart, Joshua, speaker.
Other author/creatorAdès, Thomas conductor.
Other author/creatorWilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Opera adaptation of (work): Importance of being earnest.
Other author/creatorBirmingham Contemporary Music Group, performer.
General noteTitle from disc label.
General noteSynopsis by Christopher Cook, program notes by Paul Griffiths, libretto, and composer biography (31 pages : portrait) inserted in container.
Performer Barbara Hannigan, soprano (Cecily Cardew) ; Katalin Károlyi, mezzo-soprano (Gwendolen Fairfax) ; Hilary Summers, contralto (Miss Prism) ; Peter Tantsits, tenor (Jack Worthing) ; Joshua Bloom, baritone (Algernon Moncrieff) ; Alan Ewing (Lady Bracknell), Benjamin Bevan (Lane/Merriman), basses ; Joshua Hart, speaker (Dr. Chasuble) ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group ; Thomas Adès, conductor.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded live 2012 April 26 Barbican Hall, London.
LanguageSung in English.
Genre/formOperas.
Genre/formLive sound recordings.
Genre/formLive sound recordings.
Genre/formOperas.
Standard identifier# 5023363019729
Publisher numberNMC D197 NMC

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