On my first day as an usher at ENO, I was an opera novice. Now I’m a director, I realise how backward our attitude the art ...

Downtown Los Angeles is about to get hit with a musical deluge. LA Opera is bringing two free performances of Benjamin ...

LA Opera will present two free performances of Benjamin Britten’s “Noah’s Flood” next month at the Cathedral of Our Lady of ...

LA Opera will present two free performances of Benjamin Britten’s “Noah’s Flood” next month at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, featuring a cast of hundreds of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the early 1970s, Benjamin Britten was reading an article that declared all his operas focused on the theme ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to being inspired to pursue a career as a singer, Matthew Soibelman owes more of a debt to Sammy Davis Jr. than Placido Domingo. Growing up in California and possessing a cavernously ...

Britten-Norman, a British aircraft manufacturer, is offering full lifecycle fleet support as part of its new aircraft brokerage and trade-in service. The program, the company says, enables operators ...

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 ...

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 ...