English National Opera’s staging of Britten’s 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of Britten’s witty 1947 opera Albert Herring is social criticism of the ...
Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” is a rare beast. Most only get the chance to conduct the piece once or twice in their lives, but director of choral organizations and conducting Prof. Andrew Megill ...
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. The coastal festival, founded by the composer and Peter Pears in the 1940s, has built a reputation for rich, forward-looking programming. Benjamin Britten, whose history is ...
“So little is known about the queer lives” of Schubert, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Smyth, Poulenc, and Britten, highlights a synopsis for the show that comes to London in November. By Georg Szalai Global ...
Gary Tushaw as Benjamin Britten and Liam Watson as David Hemmings in 'Turning the Screw'All images by Polly Hancock It might have overburdened the drama to explain that the young man who was Britten’s ...