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 ...

Noye’s Fludde as performed in Moonrise Kingdom Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features Opera buffs know this as Benjamin Britten’s setting of an English miracle play about Noah’s Ark to his vivid, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our writer Michael Grandage directed Billy Budd for Glyndebourne in 2010 (pictured). It makes a return to the opera house this ...

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...

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.

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San Francisco Opera presents Benjamin Britten's masterpiece of law and order on the high seas, Billy Budd, in six performances at the War Memorial Opera House September 7-22. Based on the unfinished ...

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 ...

They say important works of art speak differently to each succeeding generation, their meaning morphing and refracting as social circumstances change and history unravels. That was certainly true on ...