Lessons in Love and Violence: Opera in Two Parts, Vocal Score (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780571540549)

Inspired by the fast-moving scenes and vulnerable, complex characters of Elizabethan drama, this new opera by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp considers what space, if any, exists for love and human affection inside the dangerous machinery of power. A king, compelled to choose between love and political hard-headedness, makes a fatal decision, allowing his country to slide into civil war, and setting his own wife and son implacably against him. Lessons in Love and Violence is Benjamin and Crimp's third operatic collaboration, following Into the Little Hill and the critically acclaimed Written on Skin. This first edition vocal score is for soloists and piano reduction.

Author: George Benjamin
ISBN-10: 0571540546
ISBN-13: 9780571540549
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 999
Format: Paperback