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 ...

Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's book The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a ...

Noye’s Fludde as performed in Moonrise Kingdom Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features Opera buffs know this as Benjamin Britten’s setting of an English miracle play about Noah’s Ark to his vivid, ...

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

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Benjamin Britten's opera created a theatrical and musical revolution in England's music - an opera which combined great sweeping orchestral writing with brilliant storytelling and searing vocal lines.

There aren't very many operas that are chock full of laughs, but English composer Benjamin Britten's 1947 work "Albert Herring" is one of the best and the brightest. The plot deals with the foibles of ...

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...

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 ...

Rare is the professional opera company whose repertoire departs from the so-called top 20 operas. To ensure at least a break-even point in their bottom line, great operas from the last 100 years and ...