George Benjamin - Lessons in Love and Violence (2018)

Lessons in Love and Violence		1:31:16

Stéphane Degout - King
Barbara Hannigan - Isabel
Gyula Orendt - Gaveston/Stranger
Peter Hoare - Mortimer
Samuel Boden - Boy/Young King
Jennifer France - Witness 1/Singer 1/Woman 1
Krisztina Szabó - Witness 2/Singer 2/Woman 2
Andri Björn Robertsson - Witness 3/Madman

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
George Benjamin - Conductor, Composer

May 26, 2018, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Lessons in Love and Violence is the latest collaboration between composer George Benjamin and playwright Martin Crimp. Their previous work includes the large-scale opera Written on Skin – which has since become the most performed new opera of the 21st century. Lessons in Love and Violence combines atmospheric music and penetrating character studies. Director Katie Mitchell and designer Vicki Mortimer, the team behind the first production of Written on Skin, complete the creative team behind this major event in contemporary music.

The opera’s drama begins as King Edward II’s relationship with Piers Gaveston upsets the personal life of court and the political wellbeing of the country. When the controlling military leader Mortimer joins forces with Queen Isabel, the results are deadly for Gaveston and Edward. The lessons learned by the characters of this new opera are harsh ones, following a gripping trajectory from warmth and indulgence towards calculating, cold severity. ---roh.org.uk

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