Organization

Stage director

Dan Ayling

Conductor

George Benjamin

Singer

Bass-baritone

Tristan Hambleton

Witness 3

Mezzo-soprano

Krisztina Szabó

Witness 2

Soprano

Hannah Sawle

Witness 1

Baritone

Evan Hughes

King

Gyula Orendt

Gaveston

Georgia Jarman

Isabel

Tenor

Samuel Boden

Young King

Paul Curievici

Mortimer

Orchestra

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Konzerthaus Dortmund

English

Lessons in Love and Violence

Dortmund

Germany

Lessons in Love and Violence Benjamin,G

Public

German

Approved

You could get very close to the composer George Benjamin in 2016 during his time island in the Konzerthaus, where, among other things, he conducted his successful opera »Written on skin«. Now he returns with his latest contribution to the repertoire and presents his opera »Lessons in love and violence«, which premiered in 2018, in a semi-staged production with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. It's about domination and dereliction of duty: the two children of a nameless English king grow up in a drama about passion, lust for power and murder - and receive lessons in love and violence.

Ganz nah konnte man dem Komponisten George Benjamin 2016 während seiner Zeitinsel im Konzerthaus kommen, der hier unter anderem seine Erfolgsoper »Written on skin« dirigierte. Nun kehrt er mit seinem neuesten Repertoirebeitrag zurück und präsentiert mit dem Mahler Chamber Orchestra seine 2018 uraufgeführte Oper »Lessons in love and violence« in einer halbszenischen Inszenierung. Es geht um Herrschaft und Pflichtvergessenheit: Die beiden Kinder eines namenlosen englischen Königs wachsen hinein in ein Drama um Leidenschaft, Machtgier und Mord – und erhalten Lektionen in Liebe und Gewalt.

Deutsch

Lessons in Love and Violence by Benjamin, From (2023/2023), Directed by Dan Ayling,, Conductor George Benjamin, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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