Picture a Day Like This by Benjamin, po 28 okt 2024, Od (2024/2024), Režírované Marie-Christine Soma, Daniel Jeanneteau,, Dirigent George Benjamin, Opéra-Comique, Paris, France

Crimp and Benjamin have created a delicate, poignant and radiant masterpiece capturing scenes. Performed without intermission by outstanding artists under the composer’s baton, the creation proves that the contemporary opera scene can be innovative, poetic and accessible. An ordinary day. A horrific event: the death of a newborn makes a woman beg for a miracle. «All you need to do is find a genuinely happy person before nightfall and take a button from their sleeve». Promising and disappointing encounters follow one another to the threshold of a wondrous garden. Created in 2023 at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence on a text by Martin Crimp, this lyric fable is George Benjamin’s fourth opera. As in 2012 with the historic success of Written on Skin, the Opéra-Comique co-produced this creation, directed by Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie- Christine Soma, to host the premiere in Paris. Crimp and Benjamin have created a delicate, poignant and radiant masterpiece capturing scenes. Performed without intermission by outstanding artists under the composer’s baton, the creation proves that the contemporary opera scene can be innovative, poetic and accessible. Opera in one act. Original text by Martin Crimp. Created on 5th July 2023 at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence