Matériel : Vocal Score
text-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.
SKU: AP.12-0571540546
ISBN 9780571540549. English.
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.
SKU: AP.12-0571541097
ISBN 9780571541096. English.
Premiered in 2018, the 90-minute opera Lessons in Love and Violence delves into the dark and turbulent events of Edward II's life and death. The opera unfolds as a taut slow-burning arch of seven tableaux. This work boasts particularly rich string textures and spectacular ensemble writing. The music's relationship to the drama is often unstable and seemingly very spontaneous, but beneath it all one senses a rigorous architecture, unflinchingly guiding the listener deeper and deeper into the opera's disquieting emotional world. This full score is a perfect accompaniment to the previously published vocal score and text.
