Benjamin Britten’s penultimate opera Owen Wingrave, Op. 85 is unusual in being expressly written for the television. With a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, and based on a short story by Henry James, it ...

Benjamin Britten’s much-played score The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra was first commissioned for this 1946 film, which was made to inform aspiring musicians about each instrument in a ...

Janáček's Vixen Sharpears has been making streamlined runs between eight Irish cities and towns, no doubt winning new admirers for this singular take on man, nature and the cycle of life. The chamber ...

Reviews of a performance of Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” at the Metropolitan Opera and a production of Benjamin ...

The legendary Jamaican-born bass Willard White made his New York City Opera breakthrough the year I was born, so he has been around a long time (I am no spring chicken). But any fear that time had ...

Benjamin Britten’s godson happens to be composer/broadcaster (and another Hampstead resident) Michael Berkeley, who has a new song cycle premiering at Temple Church, Feb 24. Called Things Invisible to ...

Two new Canadian operas headline the season, plus a work by Benjamin Britten that has never before been seen on the COC mainstage.

PHYLLIDA Lloyd’s stripped back staging of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes first opened to huge acclaim at Leeds Grand Theatre, almost twenty years ago. The current run of performances mark the fourth ...

Sopranos – the highest voices in the operatic repertory – have dominated the musical landscape. Here are my favourites The 96-year-old composer received a heartfelt standing ovation for her ...

It was Serge Koussevitzky, the Jewish-born Russian conductor of the Boston Symphony, who commissioned British composer Benjamin Britten to write his opera, Peter Grimes. And it was the “Four ...

Benjamin Britten’s dark masterpiece Peter Grimes returns triumphantly to Opera North, conducted by Gary Walker and revived by Karolina Sofulak and Tim Claydon.