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There is a live video recording of the 2017 production for the Festival D'Aix-en-Provence with Leonardo García Alarcón and the Cappella Mediterranea, starring sopranos Francesca Aspromonte and Susanna Hurrell, countertenors Carlo Vistoli and Jakub Jósef Orlinski, and baritone Alexander Miminoshvili. There is a full version available on YouTube.
Written on Skin is an opera by the British composer George Benjamin, with a libretto written by Martin Crimp.. Benjamin's first full-length opera, it was premiered at the 2012 Aix-en-Provence Festival by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra as a commission from five opera centres, [1] and received its British premiere at the Royal Opera House in London in March 2013 and its Paris premiere at the ...
In 2011 the opera was performed at the Voi-Z opera festival in Zwolle on 5 April [22] and at the Huygens Music Festival in Leidschendam on 28 May. [23] Performances of ʼuʼ were held in the Zeebelt Theatre in The Hague on 17 February 2012 and in Rijeka, Croatia, on 25 February 2012. [24] The opera was performed in Berlin on 22 February 2013. [25]
The opera was commissioned by New York's Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Greg Pierce, who wrote the libretto for the 2016 opera Fellow Travelers, as well as the lyrics of two musicals with John Kander, The Landing (2013) and Kid Victory (2015), was hired to write the libretto. In an interview with NPR, Pierce stated: "The Met ...
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Lists of operas cover operas, a form of theatre in which music is essential, and the roles are portrayed by singers. There are general lists and lists by theme ...
Henze's first full-length opera is an updating of the story of Manon Lescaut, also the source for important operas by Massenet and Puccini. [222] 1953 Gloriana (Britten). Composed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, this opera looks back to the relationship between her namesake Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. [223]
A new staging by the English National Opera and Improbable theatre, co-produced by the Metropolitan Opera, opened in London in April 2007 [8] and in New York in April 2008. [9] It was revived in London in February 2010 [10] and in New York in November 2011; the New York performance on November 19 was part of the Met Opera: Live in HD series.