The performance, sung by soprano Rhian Owen and baritone Dominic Burns,  was timed at 4 minutes 9 seconds, and was certified by adjudicators from the Guinness Book of Records as the world's shortest opera, beating the previous record held by Darius Milhaud's Deliverance of Theseus (1928), which lasts just over 7 minutes.
A soprano and baritone duo performed a brief opera that lasted just 4 minutes and 9 seconds. This feat was acknowledged by Guinness World Records as the shortest opera ever, outdoing Darius Milhaud's Deliverance of Theseus (1928), which took over 7 minutes to complete.