Event listing: Written on Skin | 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

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Programme

Benjamin, Sir George (b. 1960)

Performers

The Royal Opera
Sir George Benjamin	Conductor
Katie Mitchell	Director
Christopher Purves	Bass	The Protector
Barbara Hannigan	Soprano	Agnès
Bejun Mehta	Countertenor	Boy / Angel 1
Victoria Simmonds	Mezzo-soprano	Marie / Angel 2
Allan Clayton	Tenor	John / Angel 3

Reviews of Written on Skin directed by Katie Mitchell

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, January 2017

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Lincoln Center: David H Koch Theater, New York City, August 2015

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Shizuka Hariu on adapting Written on Skin for the concert hall

Bachtrack, 19th July

We speak to Dr Shizuka Hariu about the challenges of staging George Benjamin’s Written on Skin for Kazushi Ono's performances at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall at the end of August.

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New opera, ancient tales: George Benjamin's Written on skin at the Royal Opera

David Karlin, 8th April

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.

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