The Nashville Symphony closes its Aegis Sciences Classical Series this spring with Benjamin Britten's breathtaking masterpiece, "War Requiem." Featuring the Nashville Symphony Chorus and Blair ...

Remarkable poetry resides in the fact that Benjamin Britten was born on Nov. 22, since in the Christian liturgical calendar that date marks the Feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Even ...

Benjamin Britten’s adaptation of the Henry James novella “The Turn of the Screw” is the most popular of the late English composer’s chamber operas. The story appealed to one of Britten’s favorite ...

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.

Reporting from SAN FRANCISCO — When Peter Grimes “is at his exercise,” boys die. The title character of Benjamin Britten’s first and best-known opera is a social outcast in a claustrophobic fishing ...

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 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 ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/mts.2010.32.1.1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mts.2010.32.1.1 Much of the debate over post-tonal prolongation has focused on non ...

When plotting out his first season as Minnesota Orchestra music director, Thomas Søndergård decided to focus his winter visit on two countries: Russia and England. After celebrating the new year with ...

The most terrifying moment I know in Western music is the gathering of the mob in the third act of Benjamin Britten’s 1945 opera, “Peter Grimes,” set to open at the Metropolitan Opera on Oct. 16. More ...