Scoring A Century is an opera with music by English composer David Blake.
[2] It tells the history of Mr and Mrs Jedermann, who travel through the events, politics and social change of the twentieth century, never ageing.
Although its premiere was not reviewed in the press, a 2019 revival received widespread attention where the piece was heavily criticised.
[6] Despite a strong cast that performed with 'more gusto than the piece deserves'[3] the opera was widely panned, receiving just two stars in both the Times and the Guardian, and was described as 'unwieldy, overlong and stylistically diffuse'.
[7] Warner came in for particular criticism, for 'stilted dialogue [that] trips over some embarrassingly bad jokes'[3] and a 'piece that he might have profitably revised even further'.