Event listing: Lessons in Love and Violence | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Event is in the past

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Benjamin, Sir George (b. 1960)

Performers

The Royal Opera
Sir George Benjamin	Conductor
Katie Mitchell	Director
Vicki Mortimer	Set Designer, Costume Designer
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Stéphane Degout	Baritone	King
Barbara Hannigan	Soprano	Isabel
Gyula Orendt	Baritone	Gaveston / Stranger
Peter Hoare	Tenor	Mortimer
Samuel Boden	Tenor	Boy / Young King
Jennifer France	Soprano	Witness 1 / Singer 1 / Woman 1
Krisztina Szabó	Soprano	Witness 2 / Singer 2 / Woman 2
Andri Björn Róbertsson	Bass	Witness 3 / Madman

Reviews of Lessons in Love and Violence directed by Katie Mitchell

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Gran Teatre del Liceu: Auditorium, Barcelona, February 2021 (Español)

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Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam, June 2018 (Deutsch)

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Barbara Hannigan on tailor-made roles

Mark Pullinger, 8th May

We meet the Canadian soprano as she prepares for the world première of George Benjamin's new opera, Lessons in Love and Violence at the Royal Opera House.

Lessons in Love and Violence: ice and drama

David Karlin, 10th May

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's second full scale opera is a refinement of the craft showed in Written on Skin – but the lessons are less in love and violince than in power, tension and beauty of the score.

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Lessons in Love and ViolenceNew production

Reviews of Lessons in Love and Violence directed by Katie Mitchell