Royal Opera House performs Gerald Barry opera The Intelligence Park

25 September 2019 19:45 - 4 October 2019 19:45

Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House

Gerald Barry, composer
Vincent Deane, librettist
Nigel Lowery, director and designer

Gerald Barry creates operas like no other – brilliant, surreal and often laugh-out-loud funny. Not seen in London since 1990, Barry’s first opera The Intelligence Park comes to the Linbury ahead of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground on the Main Stage later in the Season. The setting is Dublin in 1753, where a composer’s work on an opera is disrupted and intensified when he falls in love with the lead castrato, who at the same time elopes with the composer’s fiancée causing fantasy and reality to become mixed. The music, scored for chamber orchestra and conducted here by Jessica Cottis, is startling in every aspect of its range, making extravagant virtuoso demands of the six performers.

Performances details:

Wednesday 25 September 2019, 7.45pm
Friday 27 September 2019, 7.45pm
Saturday 28 September 2019, 7.45pm
Tuesday 1 October 2019, 7.45pm
Wednesday 2 October 2019, 7.45pm
Friday 4 October 2019, 7.45pm

Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden, London
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Conducted by Jessica Cottis
London Sinfonietta
 
Co-production with Music Theatre Wales; in association with London Sinfonietta.
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Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House

London
England

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