'I threw my pop records in the bin': George Benjamin on his defining moments – and his latest opera | Opera

As Picture a Day Like This comes to the London stage, the composer speaks about finding his dream collaborator, entering ‘a different dimension’ with Olivier Messiaen – and the day Disney changed his life

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