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With a semi-staged production, directed by Benjamin Davis, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra has also been bringing George Benjamin's opera to concert hall audiences.

Written on Skin is a cold but effective opera full of musical and dramatic energy. Opera Philadelphia's new staging and talented young cast do it justice.

The Royal Opera's first revival of George Benjamin's medieval shocker is characterised by stellar singing performances, notably from Barbara Hannigan and Iestyn Davies.

Shorn of Katie Mitchell’s production and presented on the Barbican Hall’s stage with only the occasional prop, George Benjamin's modern masterpiece Written on Skin came across with even greater intensity.

First seen at the innovative, fearless Aix-en-Provence festival three summers ago, George Benjamin’s riveting, grisly Written on Skin has arrived in New York. 

21st century opera is a broad church. There aren’t many of us, I suppose, who are intimately familiar with the biographical accounts of the lives of 13th century troubadours, popular at the time in Spain and south west France. But Martin Crimp and George Benjamin, librettist and composer of Written on skin, aren’t exactly run of the mill people.

Die Oper Köln präsentiert George Benjamins fesselnde und aufrührende Oper in einer Live-Übertragung.

Clou du festival Présences qui lui est consacré, George Benjamin dirige un Written on skin bouleversant à la Philharmonie, qui rappelle avant tout la richesse de l'écriture orchestrale du compositeur.

Die Dreiecksbeziehung mit tragischem Ausgang wurde von einem vollblütigen Sängerensemble und dem außergewöhnlich engagiert spielenden Mahler Chamber Orchestra getragen.