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 ...

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, ...

When Deborah Warner’s gritty production of Benjamin Britten’s post-war opera Peter Grimes opened at the Royal Opera House in ...

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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 ...

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