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The Intelligence Park
Vocal scores on hire
978-0-19-335254-4
06 September 1990
Price: Available on request
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A three act opera for Soprano, Alto, Counter-tenor, Tenor, Baritone, and Bass soloists, and Boy Soprano on pre-recorded tape with ensemble. Forces or CategoryOperaDuration105 minutesDifficultyDifficultOrchestrationfl(+picc&afl), ob(+ca), 2 cl(II+bcl&Ebcl), bn(+cbn), hn, tpt(+picc Bb tpt), tbn(+btbn), perc (mba, glock), pn, 2 vln, vla, vc, db,
tapeProgramme NotesMusic by Gerald Barry
Libretto by Vincent Deane
The Intelligence Park is set in 18th Century Dublin and explores the relation between the sexuality, artistic creativity and power.
The drama centres on a series of paradoxes concerning sterility and fertility: a patriarchal Dublin Magistrate's obsession with fatherhood and the propagation of his own line; a Composer who finds creativity in his obsession with a Castrato and liberation in images of imprisonment; a woman who seems to find sexual excitement in impotence and must defy her father's dynastic obsessions to compete with her husband that-was-to-be for possession of the other worldly voice which
dominates both their fantasies.
The language is obsessive and as tightly wrought as the plot. The historical city of Dublin and the dramatic eclipse of the sun in 1753 form the crux of a complex vocabulary of symbols which weave throughout the text. Scenes from the Composer's opera, sung in Italian, burst in on the action like flashes of the imagination, and a Chorus of Dummies prove fickle and unreliable commentators on this fantastic mosaic.
© Mary FitzGerald
Synopsis of the opera and programme notes in French and German are available from the Repertoire Promotion Department.
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Gerald Barry (b.1952) Gerald Barry was born in Ireland in 1952 and studied composition with Stockhausen and Kagel. He first came to public attention in 1979 with his radical ensemble works __________ and 'Ø.
Barry's music has been performed at the Warsaw Autumn, Musik Triennale Köln, Musica Viva, Festival Présences, Huddersfield and St Denis Festivals, the ISCM and many others. His music has been recorded on the NMC, Largo, Black Box, Marco Polo and Challenge labels.More on Gerald Barry from The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
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"The Intelligence Park is more than just a complicated story. It contains overtones of impotence, sexual fantasy, sanity, despair, and sporadic serenity which combine to create an atmosphere of nightmarish surrealism." - Geoffrey Norris, The Daily Telegraph "The joy of the opera...is that it is driven by music of an energy and pace unheard of in most contemporary work. Barry...one of the true originals." - Robert Maycock, The Independent "Never mind what the piece is about: it just quite shockingly is. It exists. The gestation has been long - almost ten years - but the child can be pronounced in rude good health, even if it looks like nothing on has ever seen." - Paul Griffiths, The
Times "Witty, disturbing, elusive, allusive, intriguing and engagingly saucy...it cannot be too long before it receives another production." - Rodney Milnes, Opera "Among the new works offered by the Almeida Festival the best and most interesting was Gerald Barry's eccentric, literary opera, The Intelligence Park. A demanding but rewarding experience." - Vera Elyashiv, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger "The Intelligence Park reveals a strongly personal style of writing, a blend of minimalism and brutalism, laced with impressive energy and despatch." - Tom Sutcliffe, The Guardian "Neither polite pastiche nor another Rake's Progess, this is a clenched fist of an opera, raw, challenging, unusual, stacked
with vivid theatrical imagery." - Christopher Grier, The London Evening Standard "It is driven by music of an energy and pace unheard of in most contemporary work. Barry, one of the true originals, has a pared down, obsessive idiom of steady movement and strategic pauses, warped chorales and self replicating lines, baroque echoes lurking in the background, long stretches in just two parts, sudden fits of melody." - The Independent
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