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Turning failure into success

It’s the day of the last ever South Bank Show Awards, and Martin Crimp should be at the Dorchester Hotel.

Into The Little Hill, George Benjamin’s chamber opera for which Crimp wrote the libretto, has been nominated for Best Opera, and by rights Crimp should be basking in the praise of London’s arts establishment.