A husband, a wife, an artist, and a passion with consequences beyond imagination. Declared as the best opera written in the past two decades by Le Monde, this concert version – re-uniting performers from the Royal Opera’s sensational 2013 production – is an unmissable climax to the Barbican’s George Benjamin Focus.

Programme and Performers:
- George Benjamin: Written On Skin
- Text by Martin Crimp
- Concert performance directed by Benjamin Davis 

- Mahler Chamber Orchestra 
- George Benjamin: conductor 
- Christopher Purves: The Protector 
- Barbara Hannigan: Agnès
- Tim Mead: Angel One/The Boy 
- Victoria Simmonds Angel Two/Marie 
- Robert Murray Angel Three/John

Please arrive on time as latecomers may not be admitted.

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Written On Skin

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 A husband, a wife, an artist, and a passion with consequences beyond imagination...

Written On Skin

A dark, sensual opera, hailed as one of the best of the 20th Century

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