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George Benjamin

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*Written on Skin*, with a libretto by the prominent British playwright Martin Crimp and music by George Benjamin, premiered at the 2012 Aix-en-Provence Festival to great acclaim and has since become a popular production, staged repeatedly in theaters across Europe.A violent guardian orders a boy to write a book full of enlightenmentdepicting the human lifespan, the exploits of angels, sinners burning in the fires of hell, and families in heavenand the enigmatic boy begins to live in the guardians home. The boys arrival awakens Agns, the guardians young wife, who has been under his control, leading to a shocking and tragic ending. Directed by Katie Mitchell, who is highly acclaimed in the British theater world, this production brings the dark and tense libretto to life in an original staging, masterfully intertwining the past and present elements found within the opera.Benjamin himself conduc