Wife Hannigan Eats Lover’s Heart In ‘Written on Skin’

At the moment she’s pretending to eat a cooked human heart. A few months ago, she was singing opera en pointe and conducting the Berlin Philharmonic.

The Canadian multi-tasking soprano Barbara Hannigan is starring in the U.K. premiere of “Written on Skin” by George Benjamin at the Royal Opera. She plays Agnes, a medieval wife who finds liberation in an adulterous affair. When her husband finds out, he makes her eat the heart of her lover. Funnily enough, Agnes quite enjoys it.