Alice's Adventures Under Ground
Music by Gerald Barry · libretto by Gerald Barry · premiered 2016
Alice's Adventures Under Ground is a 2016 one-act opera by Gerald Barry to his own libretto, based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (the original manuscript of which had the title of Alice's Adventures Under Ground) and its 1871 sequel Alice Through the Looking-Glass. First performed in a concert staging at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles on 22 November 2016 (a performance repeated with the same cast and conductor, Thomas Adès, at the Barbican Centre in London a few days later), it received its stage premiere at the Royal Opera House on 3 February 2020. The staging was a joint production by the Royal Opera House, Irish National Opera and Dutch National Opera, and was directed by Antony McDonald. The 54 roles in the opera are sung by a cast of seven.
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About the Composer
Gerald Barry may refer to: Gerald Barry (British journalist) (1898–1968), British newspaper editor and organizer of the Festival of Britain Gerald Barry (Irish journalist) (1947–2011), Irish political journalist and broadcaster Gerald Barry (British Army officer) (1896–1977), British soldier and cricketer Gerald Barry (composer) (born 1952), Irish composer Gerald Barry (actor), British stage and film actor Gerat Barry or Gerald Barry (fl. 1624–1642), colonel in the Spanish army and military writer
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