A symphony orchestra is preparing to play a special Shostakovich concert in Ilkley this weekend. The Airedale Symphony Orchestra will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of the Russian ...

“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 ...

Britain was struck by heavy downpours and strong winds today as Storm Benjamin brought misery to commuters while sweeping across the country. The Met Office issued four yellow weather warnings for up ...

Storm Benjamin caused some dramatic scenes on the Norfolk coast on Wednesday morning. High tide at Sea Palling saw waves pushing up the concrete causeway and crashing on to the rocks in front of the ...

Rain and wind warnings have been reduced for the UK as Storm Benjamin has cleared away to the east. The storm, named by the French weather service Météo France, moved through the English Channel ...

11:34, Wed, Oct 22, 2025 Updated: 13:58, Wed, Oct 22, 2025 The Met Office has updated two of its weather warnings already announced earlier this week. Two yellow alerts for wind are set to be enforced ...

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.

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 ...