Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English National Opera's staging of Britten's 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of ...

Scottish Opera marked the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's death at Lammermuir Festival with a compelling programme of vocal ...

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our writer Michael Grandage directed Billy Budd for Glyndebourne in 2010 (pictured). It makes a return to the opera house this ...

On the evening of May 17, 2024, at the Marguerre-Saal opera hall in Heidelberg, Benjamin Britten’s two-act opera “Death in Venice” was staged. Outside, there was a heavy rainstorm, and the cloakroom ...

"It is long, it is hard, it is arduous. You can’t sleep on the podium in this piece," conductor James Conlon told THR of the three-hour opera, which begins its run Feb. 22. By Jordan Riefe Billy Budd ...

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Richard Wagner and Benjamin Britten each created his own brand of utopia. Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, Richard Wagner and Benjamin Britten each created his own brand of utopia.

Noye’s Fludde as performed in Moonrise Kingdom Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features Opera buffs know this as Benjamin Britten’s setting of an English miracle play about Noah’s Ark to his vivid, ...

Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” directed by Deborah Warner in her Paris Opera debut, reintroduces a 20th-century composer to French audiences. By David Belcher The bitter and bloodthirsty ...