Scottish Opera marked the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's death at Lammermuir Festival with a compelling programme of vocal ...

ALDEBURGH, England – The rugged, pebbly beach in this small coastal town looks out onto the limitless expanse of the North Sea. On a recent evening at dusk, the light was flat, the sky low and vast, ...

When did you first meet Britten? What were the circumstances? What were you first impressions? I came up to Aldeburgh with my dad who was playing bass in the English Opera Group and the English ...

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, ...

Earlier this autumn, the Metropolitan Opera honored the centennial anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth on November 22 by re-staging its 1996 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Some ...

I always perform a lot of Britten's music, but this year having been the 100th anniversary of his birth, this steady diet has become something of a feast. I'm always asked what draws me to Britten's ...

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 ...

There will be no evading Benjamin Britten in the coming months. Thirty-seven years after his death in 1976, a man widely labelled as “the greatest English composer since Purcell” has his centenary ...

Benjamin Britten was a child prodigy who went on to compose some of the 20th century’s greatest works. Peter Parker salutes a man whose genius was fuelled by personal passions. Neil Powell (Benjamin ...

To celebrate 100 years since the composer’s birth, Clemency Burton-Hill recommends the best way for a casual listener to discover the magic of Britten’s music. 2013 has brought forth an embarrassment ...