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 ...

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.

Benjamin Britten, who never in his life thought of himself as gay, might well be dismayed if he could peer down at how discussion of his life and work has come to be dominated by the matter of his ...

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A guide to Britten's opera Gloriana featuring the voices of Britten experts Philip Reed and Paul Kildea, the soprano Dame Josephine Barstow, and an archive interview with soprano Jennifer Vyvyan.

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 ...

In this photo taken on Monday June 17, 2013 and released on Thursday June 20, 2013 by the Royal Opera House, Susan Bullock as Queen Elizabeth I takes center stage during the Royal Opera House Covent ...

In 1958 the original audience of the now-classic Benjamin Britten children’s opera Noye’s Fludde would have been familiar with the production’s opening hymn, “Lord Jesus, Think on Me.” When the opera ...