Written on Skin is one of this early century’s leading operas. Murder and love, passion and violence : welcome to a hellish love triangle. 

Then a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, George Benjamin was compared to Beethoven. When he composed Written on Skin in 2012, the Londoner left his mark on lyrical art. In this show, a rich landowner asks an artist to create a work of illuminations in his honor. His megalomania suffers a blow when his wife falls in love with the artist. More than a destructive passion, this story tells a woman’s rebellion against a tyrannical husband in a captivating medieval set.

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