The centrepiece of the Royal Ballet’s abstract Perspectives triple bill, Cathy Marston’s Against the Tide is a new creation ...

A life-sized statue depicting a famous composer as a child has been unveiled in his hometown following a three-year campaign.

“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 ...

As the stuffy postwar England enshrined in Albert Herring (1947) recedes, so Benjamin Britten’s comedy expands in radical subversion. Much loved by many, the work also suffers from a mawkish image.

Director and theatremaker Melly Still has revealed how working for the beleaguered Welsh National Opera during the threat of job cuts had a detrimental impact on staff. She told The Stage there was a ...

Seething beneath the comic surface of Britten’s witty 1947 opera Albert Herring is social criticism of the conventions of repressive country life. Without overplaying the dark side, Antony McDonald’s ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Raise a cheer for Benjamin Britten. Faced with the challenge of performing opera in an austerity-stricken ...

There are productions that are pulled out of the operatic closet over many decades, veritable warhorses, some of which creak and groan like ancient equines bearing a load that they are no longer fit ...

The new statue of Benjamin Britten outside the composer's sea-front birthplace and childhood home in Lowestoft will be unveiled on November 10 by Sir John Rutter. It’s a perfect fit: not only is ...

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