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, ...

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Benjamin Britten's opera created a theatrical and musical revolution in England's music - an opera which combined great sweeping orchestral writing with brilliant storytelling and searing vocal lines.

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

Fear death by water,” says the fortune-teller in TS Eliot’s “The Waste Land”. There were a few moments in Natalie Abrahami’s new production of The Turn of the Screw when I worried that the fine ...

The taut, disturbing 1954 opera that Benjamin Britten and librettist Myfanwy Piper crafted out of Henry James’s ghost story The Turn of the Screw has shown itself to be capable of infinite ...

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.

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 ...