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 ...

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 ...

(L to R) Briana Hunter as Zoe, Adrienne Danrich as Ida and Brandie Inez Sutton as Young Ida with (background, L to R) Aundi Marie Moore as Lucy, Victor Ryan Robertson as Uncle Percy in Opera Theatre ...

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

First seen at the Snape Maltings, Oliver Mears’ new staging of Britten’s first chamber opera, The Rape of Lucretia, opened at the Linbury Theatre at the weekend for a handful of performances.

English National Opera (ENO) will present a semi-staged production of Benjamin Britten's comic opera Albert Herring, directed and designed by Antony McDonald for a limited run: Monday 13 and Thursday ...

“Last night a masterpiece was born, and it will outlive the lot of us,” declared London’s Sunday Graphic. Not all the critics were that ecstatic, but London seemed to agree last week that Benjamin ...

Anybody who enjoys Britten’s folksong arrangements or Purcell realisations will recognise the same ingenuity at work here. The arrangements are busy with counterpoint – Britten himself worried that he ...