Not the most promising title for the anti-vaxxers “Time to lighten up and let’s all be cheery” brigade. On a Covid downer? Press the back button and find uplifting weekend enlightenment – there is plenty of it – from Reaction’s other talented scribblers. To date, George Benjamin has three operas on his scorecard, Into the Hill (2006), Written on Skin (2012) and Lessons in Love and Violence (2018). He must be absolute hell to live with. On his own admission, when he is in composing mode, he remains solitary for months at a time. And it takes about two years to pen an opera score these days. Mozart churned them out in weeks. Lessons in Love has recently been made available on mediciTV.
The success of the International Opera Awards is intellectual rigour
At the awards ceremony in Munich this year, a jury dug deep into the purpose of opera and its impact on society.
