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 ...

The Royal Opera House and Britten Pears Arts today announce full casting details for The Rape of Lucretia. This new staging of Benjamin Britten's unsparing chamber opera opens at Snape Maltings, ...

In the past three years, Manhattan concert-and operagoers have heard plenty of English Composer Benjamin Britten’s music (Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned ...

In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler advanced his war on democracy as his troops marched relentlessly across Europe to seize power. Protesting against the violence unleashed by Hitler’s enablers were ...

10am Visit to the Red House. Because it’s BB’s actual birthday, St Cecilia’s Day, we are allowed in free and every room, upstairs and downstairs, is open to the public. What a splendid collection of ...

The main problem is that no 12-year-old of unbroken voice was going to act in a more explicit take than the opera’s on who is poisoned victim and who snake given the very tricky issue of pederasty.