The year 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Arguably Britain’s most important composer born after 1900, his homophonic surname, in retrospect, seems to have heralded ...

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.

LONDON (AP) – The Earl of Harewood may have been exaggerating when he described the premiere of ‘Gloriana’ as ‘one of the great disasters of operatic history.’ Still, the Benjamin Britten opera, ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Opera & beyond. Throughout his homage to Britten, Mr. Conlon has devoted much of his time to working with young musicians in Southern California's music schools ...

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 ...

The great operas have made enduring lyric theater of all sorts of stories: tragedies, comedies, romances, heroic adventures. Onetype of story, however, remains relatively rare in operatic form: the ...

Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's book The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a ...

A new biography of Benjamin Britten being published in Britain to commemorate the late composer’s 100th birthday contends that he suffered from syphilis and that he may have contracted the venereal ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Throughout his homage to Britten, Mr. Conlon has devoted much of his time ...