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The opera ’Written on Skin’ is a magical, enchanting opera experience at the Royal Danish Theatre.

It has sent shockwaves from London to New York. Now, it can finally be experienced in Denmark

Gisela Stille is Agnès, and Morten Grove Frandsen the Boy who writes on skin—the electrifying leads of the contemporary medieval tragedy 'Written on Skin.' Foto: Miklos Szabo
Gisela Stille is Agnès, and Morten Grove Frandsen the Boy who writes on skin—the electrifying leads of the contemporary medieval tragedy 'Written on Skin.' Foto: Miklos Szabo

It’s Wagner all over again—but so much more. As a whole, it’s overwhelmingly powerful, intimate, and moving, crafted by masterful hands into a magical orb of an opera.

Like in Wagner’s ’Ring,’ a young stranger stumbles into a home where a violent older man holds a young woman as a slave.

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