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Benjamin: Written on Skin; Lessons in Love and Violence
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| This collection consists of George Benjamin and Martin Crimps two award-winning fuIl-Iength operas, in visuaIIy stunning productions by criticalIy accIaimed director Katie MitcheIl. Written on Skin has been haiIed as magic and irresistible the best opera written over the Iast twenty years (Le Monde). lt telIs the story of a cruel and powerfuI Protector who asks a mysterious Boy to create an iIluminated book to celebrate his wealth and famiIy. He invites the Boy into his home, littIe realizing that this wiII Iead to a journey of startling, joyful and ultimateIy tragic seIf-discovery for his oppressed and much younger wife Agnès. Drawing on the real-life relationship between Edward lI and Piers Gaveston, Lessons in Love and Violence explores how personaI reIationships can have fatal poIitical consequences. The King lives in a close but uneasy relationship with his wife lsabeI, their two chiIdren and his Iover Gaveston. When the King banishes his miIitary advisor Mortimer, he sets off a chain of devastating events. The composer conducts two superb internationaI casts, including soprano Barbara Hannigan, who appears in the Ieading roIes of Agnès and lsabel. |
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