Royal Opera House, LondonEven the greatest opera composers tend to have a few early attempts that get swept under the carpet. George Benjamin, however, seems to have come to opera with his genius fully formed. Written on Skin is not his first music-theatre work " that was Into the Little Hill, a chamber piece from 2006 " but it is his debut full-scale opera, the fruit of an ambition stretching back more than 20 years…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PM on March 10, 2013