Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English National Opera’s staging of Britten’s 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of ...

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 ...

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...

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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.

Reporting from SAN FRANCISCO — When Peter Grimes “is at his exercise,” boys die. The title character of Benjamin Britten’s first and best-known opera is a social outcast in a claustrophobic fishing ...

U.S. music lovers have tried hard to keep abreast of Britain’s fast-moving young (35) Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of ...

The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, like many other arts organizations, has been acknowledging the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth this past season — Britten was born Nov. 22, 1913 — putting on ...

"It is long, it is hard, it is arduous. You can’t sleep on the podium in this piece," conductor James Conlon told THR of the three-hour opera, which begins its run Feb. 22. By Jordan Riefe Billy Budd ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Adapted from the Shakespeare play, Britten's Dream promises an evening of ...