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George Benjamin's Lessons in love and violence : George Benjamin (music), Martin Crimp (text) - With Stéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger)
Title
George Benjamin's Lessons in love and violence : George Benjamin (music), Martin Crimp (text) - With Stéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger) / a co-production between BCC, Royal Opera House, François Roussillon et associés, Unitel.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : Royal Opera House, Unitel, BBC, ARTE France, with the support of medici.tv, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 28 min., 16 sec.)) : sound, color
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Notes
Stage sets and costumes, Vicki Mortimer ; lighting, James Farncombe ; stage director, Katie Mitchell ; movement director, Joseph Alford.
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Summary
The Royal Opera House presents the world premiere of George Benjamin and British playwright Martin Crimp's new opera, Lessons in Love and Violence, with the composer himself at the podium! The production brings together soprano Barbara Hannigan, stage director Katie Mitchell, and designer Vicki Mortimer, reprising the creative team of their wildly successful 2012 Written on Skin that was hailed as "truly a 21st-century masterpiece" (The Times). Commissioned by six institutions from five different countries, George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's Lessons in Love and Violence draws on Elizabethan theater's quick scene changes and complex characters to ask very contemporary questions about the interactions of political power and familial love. The story explores the difficult choices of a king (played by French baritone Stéphane Degout) who must reconcile the political power he holds with his love for his family. His decisions throw his country into civil war, turning his wife and advisor against him and prompting his son to take action
Variant and related titles
Lessons in love & violence : opera in two parts
Lessons in love and violence : opera in two parts
Medici.tv classical. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 08, 2021
Credits
Stage sets and costumes, Vicki Mortimer ; lighting, James Farncombe ; stage director, Katie Mitchell ; movement director, Joseph Alford.
Performers
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 ; conductor, George Benjamin.
Contents
Lessons in Love and Violence / George Benjamin.
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