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Lessons in Love and Violence CD is an audio recording of George Benjamin music and text by Martin Crimp. The opera is in two parts, of four and three scenes respectively, and is performed without a break.
The opera, which is based on the story of King Edward II and Piers Gaveston and covers the events set out in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, which combines the story of Edward and Gaveston with the deposition of Edward II by Mortimer and the overthrow of Mortimer and Edward's queen Isabella of France by Edward III.
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Composer: George Benjamin
Text: Martin Crimp
King: Stéphane Degout
Isabel: Barbara Hannigan
Gaveston: Gyula Orendt
Mortimer: Peter Hoare
Boy / later Young King: Samuel Boden
Witness / Singer / Woman 1: Jennifer France
Witness / Singer / Woman 2: Krisztina Szabó
Witness 3 / Madman: Andri Björn Róbertsson
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: George Benjamin
Format:CD
Label: Nimbus
Released:7 June 2019
Running time: 85 mins
