Premiered in 2018, the 90-minute opera Lessons in Love and Violence delves into the dark and turbulent events of Edward IIs life and death. George Benjamin and Martin Crimps third collaboration, it unfolds as a taut slow burning arch of seven table...Lasīt vairāk
Inspired by the fast-moving scenes and vulnerable, complex characters of Elizabethan drama, this new opera by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp considers what space, if any, exists for love and human affection inside the dangerous machinery of power....Lasīt vairāk
Inspired by the fast-moving scenes and vulnerable, complex characters of Elizabethan drama, this new opera by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp considers what space, if any, exists for love and human affection inside the dangerous machinery of power....Lasīt vairāk
A beguiling 20-minute work for countertenor, womens voices and orchestra, Dream of the Song, George Benjamins first work since his ground-breaking opera Written on Skin, was premiered in 2015 by the countertenor Bejun Mehta, the Netherlands Chamber...Lasīt vairāk