https://walse.cz/tags/royal-opera/ Recent content in Royal Opera on Walse https://walse.cz/images/hans-hotter-wotan-walkure-1955.jpg https://walse.cz/images/hans-hotter-wotan-walkure-1955.jpg Hugo -- 0.160.1 cs Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://walse.cz/opera/20250622-roh-walkure/ Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://walse.cz/opera/20250622-roh-walkure/ Der Ring des Nibelungen https://walse.cz/opera/20170113-roh-benjamin/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://walse.cz/opera/20170113-roh-benjamin/ <table> <thead> <tr> <th style="text-align: left"></th> <th style="text-align: left"></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">Company</td> <td style="text-align: left">The Royal Opera</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">Inscenation</td> <td style="text-align: left">Katie Mitchell</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">Venue</td> <td style="text-align: left">Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">Conductor</td> <td style="text-align: left">George Benjamin</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">Concert Master</td> <td style="text-align: left">Vasko Vassilev</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">Angle 2/Marie</td> <td style="text-align: left">Victoria Simmonds</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">Angle 3/John</td> <td style="text-align: left">Mark Padmore</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">Angel 1/The Boy</td> <td style="text-align: left">Iestyn Davies</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">The Protector A Landowner</td> <td style="text-align: left">Christopher Purves</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">Agnès His wife</td> <td style="text-align: left">Barbara Hannigan</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left">The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House</td> <td style="text-align: left"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>An outstanding development in playwright Martin Crimp’s later career is his writing of texts for contemporary operas by George Benjamin, one of the leading composers of his generation: Written on Skin, a full-length opera, opened at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2012 in a superb production directed by Katie Mitchell. Now it is visiting London.</p>