Alice's Adventures Under Ground by Irish National Opera

Gerald Barry

Irish National Opera

Alice's Adventures Under Ground

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212069523
Catnr: SIGCD 695
Release date: 05 November 2021
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Signum Classics

UPC
0635212069523

Catalogue number
SIGCD 695

Release date
05 November 2021

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Irish National Opera is Ireland’s newest and most enterprising opera company. It champions Irish creativity in its casting, its choice of creative teams and in its commitment to the presentation of new operas. The company has performed large-scale productions of works from the great operatic canon by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini in the Gaiety and Bord Gáis Energy theatres in Dublin, the National Opera House in Wexford and Cork Opera House. It has also taken touring productions of works by Thomas Adès, Offenbach, Gluck and Vivaldi — the first ever production of a Vivaldi opera in Ireland — to venues in all parts of the country. INO was formed in January 2018 through the merger of two award-winning companies, Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera.

The two companies joined forces in 2017 in response to an Arts Council initiative, and have delivered Ireland its first ever truly national opera company. In its first 24 months of operation Irish National Opera produced 72 performances of 14 different operas in 24 Irish venues,
and its long-term target is to visit over 20 Irish venues annually. INO is committed to taking Irish opera productions abroad. Its FEDORA–Generali Prize winning production of Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The Second Violinist, a co-production with Landmark Productions, has been seen in Galway, Dublin, London and Amsterdam. INO’s 20 Shots of Opera, 20 short operas that were conceived, composed, recorded and filmed in just six months, showcase the breadth and depth of Irish operatic talent. The project was praised in The Wall Street Journal as “an exhilarating jaunt through up-to-the-minute creativity” and is available to watch online on irishnationalopera.ie and on operavision.eu. Also available to view online is Mozart’s Seraglio mini-series, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Handel’s Acis and Galatea and the company’s inaugural Gala Concert The Big Bang!. In addition to livestreamed and on-demand offerings, the company responded to restrictions on indoor audiences by presenting work ‘Beyond the stage’. This includes site-specific outdoor performances of Strauss’s Elektra in Kilkenny Arts Festival, street-art operas, outdoor film screenings of Maxwell Davis’s The Lighthouse in iconic locations including Hook Head Wexford, Valentia Island and Fanad Head, and creating the first virtual reality community opera Out of the Ordinary, which won the FEDORA

Digital Prize in June 2021. The ABL Aviation Opera Studio provides a platform for emerging opera artists in several disciplines. Studio members gave the much-praised world premiere of Evangelia Rigaki’s This Hostel Life in the crypt of Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral last September, and they also presented the free, introductory show, The Deadly World of Opera, as part of Dublin City Council’s MusicTown festival. INO is a member of Opera Europa, FEDORA, and is an Operavision partner. Funded by the Arts Council

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Irish Chamber Orchestra

Irish National Opera

Irish National Opera is Ireland’s newest and most enterprising opera company. It champions Irish creativity in its casting, its choice of creative teams and in its commitment to the presentation of new operas.
The company has performed large- scale productions of works from the great operatic canon by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini in the Gaiety and Bord Gáis Energy theatres in Dublin, the National Opera House in Wexford and Cork Opera House. It has also taken touring productions of works by Thomas Adès, Offenbach, Gluck and Vivaldi — the first ever production of a Vivaldi opera in Ireland — to venues in all parts of the country.
INO was formed in January 2018 through the merger of two award- winning companies, Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera. The two companies joined forces in 2017 in response to an Arts Council initiative, and have delivered Ireland its first ever truly national opera company. In its first 24 months of operation Irish National Opera produced 72 performances of 14 different operas in 24 Irish venues, and its long-term target is to visit over 20 Irish venues annually.
INO is committed to taking Irish opera productions abroad. Its FEDORA– Generali Prize winning production of Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The Second Violinist, a co-production with Landmark Productions, has been seen in Galway, Dublin, London and Amsterdam.
INO’s 20 Shots of Opera, 20 short operas that were conceived, composed, recorded and filmed in just six months, showcase the breadth and depth of Irish operatic talent.
The project was praised in The Wall Street Journal as “an exhilarating jaunt through up-to-the-minute creativity” and is available to watch online on irishnationalopera.ie and on operavision.eu. Also available to view online is Mozart’s Seraglio mini-series, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Handel’s Acis and Galatea and the company’s inaugural Gala Concert The Big Bang!. In addition to livestreamed and on- demand offerings, the company responded to restrictions on indoor audiences by presenting work ‘Beyond the stage’. This includes site-specific outdoor performances of Strauss’s Elektra in Kilkenny Arts Festival, street- art operas, outdoor film screenings of Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse in iconic locations including Hook Head Wexford, Valentia Island and Fanad Head, a film of Gerald Barry’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, which was streamed jointly by INO and the Royal Opera House, and creating the first virtual reality community opera Out of the Ordinary, which won the FEDORA Digital Prize in June 2021. The ABL Aviation Opera Studio provides a platform for emerging opera artists in several disciplines. Studio members gave the much- praised world premiere of Evangelia Rigaki’s This Hostel Life in the crypt of Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral in 2019, and they also presented the free, introductory show, The Deadly World of Opera, as part of Dublin City Council’s MusicTown festival.
INO is a member of Opera Europa, FEDORA, and is an Operavision partner.
Funded by the Arts Council

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André de Ridder (conductor)

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Gerald Barry

Gerald Barry was born in Ireland in 1952 and studied with Stockhausen and Kagel. Canada was sung by Allan Clayton with the CBSO under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the 2017 BBC Proms. Barry's Piano Concerto was premiered at Musica Viva in Munich with the BRSO under Peter Rundel. His first opera The Intelligence Park, recorded on NMC was at the 1990 Almeida Festival directed by David Fielding. A new production by Nigel Lowery opened at Covent Garden in September 2019. A second opera, The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (1991) also staged by Lowery, opened the 2002 Aldeburgh Festival, followed by performances in London and the Berliner Festwochen conducted by Thomas Adès. A new staging by Sam Brown took place in 2013 at...

Gerald Barry was born in Ireland in 1952 and studied with Stockhausen and Kagel. Canada was sung by Allan Clayton with the CBSO under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the 2017 BBC Proms. Barry's Piano Concerto was premiered at Musica Viva in Munich with the BRSO under Peter Rundel.

His first opera The Intelligence Park, recorded on NMC was at the 1990 Almeida Festival directed by David Fielding. A new production by Nigel Lowery opened at Covent Garden in September 2019. A second opera, The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (1991) also staged by Lowery, opened the 2002 Aldeburgh Festival, followed by performances in London and the Berliner Festwochen conducted by Thomas Adès. A new staging by Sam Brown took place in 2013 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant was at English National Opera in 2005 and Theater Basel in 2008 directed by Richard Jones. La Plus Forte (2007), a one-act opera for the 2007 Festival Présences, Radio France, was premiered by Barbara Hannigan. An English version of the work was made for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Barry’s opera, The Importance of Being Earnest (2009–10), was co-commissioned by the LA Philharmonic and the Barbican and staged at Opéra national de Lorraine, Nancy, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and given a US premiere at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic and by Northern Ireland Opera. Earnest received a 2013 RPS Award for Large-Scale Composition and the recording, released on NMC, was nominated for a 2016 Grammy Award. It was staged by Julien Chavaz for Nouvel Opéra Fribourg and in Paris. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, premiered with Thomas Adès conducting the LA Phil and Barbara Hannigan in the title role. It was at Covent Garden in February 2020 in a production by Antony McDonald. A new production by Julien Chavaz will open at Theater Magdeburg in 2023. His latest opera, Salome, for the LA Phil, the South Bank and Dutch Radio, was covid postponed and awaits its premiere. He is currently writing a Double Bass concerto for the Berlin Philharmonic in 2022.

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