March 24, 2023 • A new collection of recordings finally freed from the vaults offers a chance to hear one of opera's greatest artists sing Wagner, Strauss, Berlioz and more.

The man who put British opera on an international stage and changed the UK’s musical map for ever, his pacifism and his sense of being an outsider inspired much of his most memorable writing Starting ...

There will be no evading Benjamin Britten in the coming months. Thirty-seven years after his death in 1976, a man widely labelled as “the greatest English composer since Purcell” has his centenary ...

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Earlier this autumn, the Metropolitan Opera honored the centennial anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth on November 22 by re-staging its 1996 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Some ...

On the Kutuzov embankment in St Petersburg is a handsome mansion that caught Mstislav Rostropovich's eye when he returned to Russia in 1990 after 16 years in exile. During the Soviet years it had been ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The coastal festival, founded by the composer and Peter Pears in the 1940s, has built a reputation for rich, forward-looking programming. Benjamin Britten, whose history is ...

In 1939, Britten fled to the US where, for a time, he house-shared with fellow musicians, writers and a burlesque dancer, as Philip Clark reveals... Read more England’s most significant composer in ...