Brian Large, who has died aged 89, directed more than 800 concerts and opera performances for television including the world ...

Fifty years after his death, has Benjamin Britten sunk quietly into irrelevance? That would hardly be surprising. The world ...

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.

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 ...

Vancouver Opera will continue its 2022-2023 season with the company premiere of A Midsummer Night's Dream. British composer Benjamin Britten's romantic, atmospheric opera makes its VO debut on ...

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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 ...

Benjamin Britten had already composed many of his best-known operas when, in 1964, he began writing a trio of works he called “parables” — religiously themed music theater pieces designed to be ...