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Guide to the Royal Opera House Summer Season 2012/13
Summer Season 2012/3 One Extraordinary World. The Royal Opera House Booking days Premium 2 Friends: 26 February Premium 1 Friends: 27 February Supporting Friends: 1 March Friends of Covent Garden -...
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Importance of Being Earnest composer wins RPS music award
Composer Gerald Barry © Simon Jay Price Last night, Irish composer Gerald Barry won the RPS Music Award for Large-Scale Composition for his opera The Importance of Being Earnest. The opera, which...
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War and cucumber sandwiches: Iconic stage and screen tea parties
The Mad Hatter's Tea party from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Arthur Rackham, 1907 Afternoon tea has long been a favourite event in dramas, when its formalities and rituals can be stood on their...
View ArticleWatch: Ramin Gray on The Importance of Being Earnest
Ramin Gray’s production of Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest opens in the Linbury Studio Theatre on 14 June. The opera is exuberant bordering on outrageous, with instrumentation featuring...
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The musical world of Gerald Barry: 'Like being attacked by knives'
Gerald Barry © ROH Gerald Barry’s exuberant and brilliantly monstrous music sounds like nothing else. Described by one audience member as 'like being attacked by knives or like being chased by a serial...
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Your reaction: The Importance of Being Earnest
The Royal Opera's production of The Importance of Being Earnest © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013 [View the story "Your Reaction: The Importance of Being Earnest" on Storify] What did you think of The...
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Three operas staged at the Royal Opera House short-listed for awards
British Composer Awards 2013 of Gerald Barry, George Benjamin and David Bruce, who all had new work performed at the Royal Opera House last Season, have been short-listed in the British Composer...
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The Royal Opera in review: A look back on 2013 from Kasper Holten
Erwin Schrott as Procida and dancers in Les Vêpres siciliennes © ROH / Bill Cooper 2013 It’s hard to sum up a whole year in a few words. Not only were there both successes and disappointments, but for...
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Spring Season 2015/16
Marianela Núñez as Hermione and Dancers of The Royal Ballet in Act I of The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet © ROH / Johan Persson 2014 Opera and music fans will be treated to three productions new to...
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Opera Essentials: The Importance of Being Earnest
The Royal Opera's production of The Importance of Being Earnest © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013 The Story Begins… Ernest loves Gwendolen, but he hasn’t told her that his name is really Jack. Jack’s...
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Watch: The Importance of Being Earnest from the Barbican
Benedict Nelson as Algernon and Ida Falk Winland as Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest. © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013 Ramin Gray's Royal Opera production of Gerald Barry's The Importance of...
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The Importance of Being Earnest Musical Highlight: ‘And this is what you call...
The Importance of Being Earnest © ROH/Stephen Cummisky, 2013 How do you turn a play into an opera? Even worse, how do you do this to one of the most popular plays ever? Perhaps the key is to go your...
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Wilde at heart: the surreal brilliance of Gerald Barry’s The Importance of...
Paul Curievici as John Worthing, Stephanie Marshall as Gwendolen and Alan Ewing as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest © ROH / Stephen Cummiskey 2013 Gerald Barry’s The Importance of...
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Listen: The Importance of Being Earnest – ‘I think it would make other types...
Paul Curievici as John, Benedict Nelson as Algernon, Alan Ewing as Lady Bracknell, Claudia Boyle as Cecily and Stephanie Marshall as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest, The Royal Opera © 2016...
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