Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, writing in The New York Times, has described George Benjamin's "Written on Skin" as "a psychologically gripping, emotionally heart-pounding and viscerally satisfying drama that throws up moral questions that linger long after its 90-minute run." Alan Gilbert conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and singers including Barbara Hannigan in the first American staged performances of the opera, about a fatal love triangle.