More Opera at Lincoln Center

Today a new partnership was announced between the New York Philharmonic and its host campus, Lincoln Center, to pool resources and produce fully staged operas, starting with George Benjamin‘s 2012 Written on Skin in August of this year, weirdly coinciding with the Mostly Mozart Festival…

Written on Skin was incredibly well-received after its premier at the 2012 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, with a subsequent production at the Royal Opera House, which resulted in a new commission for the 2018 season for the team of Benjamin and Martin Crimp…

This new initiative builds on Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert’s success with innovatively semi-staged operas at the Philharmonic in collaboration with production team Giants Are Small, starting with György Ligeti‘s Grand Macabre in 2010:

This clip Barbara Hanngian features at the NY Phil production of Le Grand Macabre, and of course Hannigan created the role of Agnes in Benjamin’s Written on Skin too, so nice coincidence there…

 

588 Hours Left for Written on Skin!

Ok, not as pressing, but if you enjoyed David et Jonathas from the Aix-en-Provence Festival, you miiight enjoy Written on Skin from the same!

Image copyright Pascal Victor (again!)

Written on Skin on Arte Live online

This is the 2012 world premiere performance of Written on Skin, by British composer George Benjamin, but it’ll be going on to opera houses in London, Amsterdam, Florence, and Toulouse, so you can see he has his fans.  It was indeed very well-received, but it’s also a dark, vicious work, so be warned.  The Festival’s synopsis after the cut…