| The Royal Opera - The Importance of Being Earnest Reviews | 26 April 2024 |
Simon Wilding (Lane-Merriman), Benedict Nelson (Algernon Moncrieff)
Claudia Boyle (Cecily Cardew), Hilary Summers (Miss Prism)
Stephanie Marshall (Gwendolen), Benedict Nelson (Algernon Moncrieff), Claudia Boyle (Cecily Cardew)
Alan Ewing (Lady Bracknell), Stephanie Marshall (Gwendolen), West (Rev Canon Chasuble), Hilary Summers (Miss Prism)
Simon Wilding (Lane-Merriman), Benedict Nelson (Algernon Moncrieff), Claudia Boyle (Cecily Cardew)
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The Importance of Being EarnestThe Royal OperaNo. of reviews: 12 | |
Barry takes musico-dramatic sledgehammer to Wilde’s Importance with hilarious results |
 5 Apr 16 / Seen and Heard |
Natural comedians abound in a splendidly silly revival of Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest |
| 4 Apr 16 / The Observer |
Wilde’s script has been skilfully filleted |
| 3 Apr 16 / Express |
Wonderfully crazy in a number of totally unexpected ways |
| 2 Apr 16 / Express |
Subversive, wild and sublimely demented |
| 2 Apr 16 / Evening Standard |
Barry's opera dispenses with the importance of being earnest |
| 1 Apr 16 / Opera Today |
A frolicsome trip into the decadent late Victorian culture. |
| 31 Mar 16 / The Upcoming |
Barry’s fifth opera seems well on the way to entering the contemporary operatic repertoire |
| 31 Mar 16 / Classical Source |
Wilde with plate-smashing perversity |
| 31 Mar 16 / The Guardian |
The music is highly innovative |
| 31 Mar 16 / Music OMH |
Wilde life: The Importance of Being Earnest, the opera |
| 31 Mar 16 / Bachtrack |
The Royal Opera revives Gerald Barry's madcap opera to dazzling effect |
| 31 Mar 16 / What's on Stage |
Production details
Cast
Boyle, Curievici, Nelson, Marshall, Summers, Ewing, Wilding, Wilding
(c) Murray (d) Gray
Performance dates
29, 30 March, 1, 2, 3 April, 2, 4 June 2016
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