Deborah Warner updates Benjamin Britten’s portrait of man against society in unflinching and immensely powerful fashion ...

Deborah Warner's stark coastal staging at the Royal Opera House finds its full power in revival, with a cast performing at ...

It’s hard to think of many works of art that centre on a man subsuming his time and talents in order to encourage a woman’s prodigious creativity – the same cannot be said of the reverse. With the RSC ...

Peter Grimes at Royal Opera: A poleaxing production - 4/5 Benjamin Britten’s opera is reimagined in gritty and grisly fashion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst - George C. Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Alex Bender/Denis de Marney Back in 2013, ...

Woubis, yossis and travestis: LGBT activism in Côte d’Ivoire The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack' Regarded as one of the most important pieces in 20th Century English music, Benjamin Britten's War ...

For this month’s Slate Book Review, I wrote about at a new biography of Benjamin Britten. In that book, author Neil Powell bridles a bit at the reductive assessment of scholar and critic Richard ...

Benjamin Britten was born in Suffolk, England on November 22, 1913. He was one of the most prolific and versatile composers of the 20th century. He wrote operas, choral music, requiems .. as well as ...

Benjamin Britten moved back to Suffolk and founded the Aldeburgh Festival and helped build the Snape Maltings Concert Hall The birthplace of Benjamin Britten that was his seafront family home for more ...

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 ...

The Nashville Symphony closes its Aegis Sciences Classical Series this spring with Benjamin Britten's breathtaking masterpiece, "War Requiem." Featuring the Nashville Symphony Chorus and Blair ...