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 year 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Arguably Britain’s most important composer born after 1900, his homophonic surname, in retrospect, seems to have heralded ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...