Lessons in Love and Violence is an opera with music by George Benjamin and text by Martin Crimp. The opera, which is based on the story of King Edward II and Piers Gaveston and covers the events set out in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, which combines the story of Edward and Gaveston with the deposition of Edward II by Mortimer and the overthrow of Mortimer and Edward's queen Isabella of France by Edward III. The opera is in two parts, of four and three scenes respectively, and is performed without a break.

Cast:
- King: Stéphane Degout
- Isabel, his wife: Barbara Hannigan
- Gaveston: Gyula Orendt
- Mortimer: Peter Hoare
- Boy / Young King: Samuel Boden
- Witness 1 / Singer 1 / Woman 1: Jennifer France
- Witness 2 / Singer 2 / Woman 2: Krisztina Szabó
- Witness 3 / Madman Andri: Björn Róbertsson