Gerald Barry: 'There's nothing I'm not interested in'

Gerald Barry’s new opera is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Fiona Maddocks goes down the rabbit hole and encounters arpeggios, anarchy, whistling kettles and cake Related: The Importance of Being Earnest review – Wilde with plate-smashing perversity Gerald Barry has said he will bake a sponge cake to mark my visit to his home in Dublin. He managed it once, he says, and he’ll try it again. This sounds promising – and fitting. The Irish composer, 64,