English National Opera’s staging of Britten’s 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of Britten’s witty 1947 opera Albert Herring is social criticism of the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Throughout his homage to Britten, Mr. Conlon has devoted much of his time ...

The New Orleans Opera celebrates the centennial of Benjamin Britten's birth with its first production of work by the 20th-century master - an hourlong account of Noah and the ark. The opera, which ...

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 ...

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.

In 1958 the original audience of the now-classic Benjamin Britten children’s opera Noye’s Fludde would have been familiar with the production’s opening hymn, “Lord Jesus, Think on Me.” When the opera ...

In this photo taken on Monday June 17, 2013 and released on Thursday June 20, 2013 by the Royal Opera House, Susan Bullock as Queen Elizabeth I takes center stage during the Royal Opera House Covent ...

The new work is Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, and no opera written since the days of Puccini has had so much advance praise. In Purcell’s Steps. In an age when even opera’s best friends are calling ...

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, ...