Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our writer Michael Grandage directed Billy Budd for Glyndebourne in 2010 (pictured). It makes a return to the opera house this ...

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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.

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 ...

In the weeks before that production opens, Mr. Conlon continues his commitment to music education and to bringing Britten's work to the community with performances of The Little Sweepat the Los ...

Crisply staged by Benjamin Wayne Smith, the BW production takes advantage of virtually every nook and cranny of the Allman Theater. The central image in Laura Carlson Tarantowski's striking set is the ...

Benjamin Britten had already composed many of his best-known operas when, in 1964, he began writing a trio of works he called “parables” — religiously themed music theater pieces designed to be ...