The Erie Philharmonic took the stage this weekend for their season finale for a moving performance of Britten’s War Requiem.

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 ...

LA Opera will begin performances of Benjamin Britten's "Noah's Flood" Friday evening, the first of two free shows at the ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...