It may have languished in the bottom drawer for decades after its 1941 premiere, but Britten’s “Paul Bunyan” sure is a crowd-pleaser, making its neglect in a year of ubiquitous Britten celebration all ...

U.S. music lovers have tried hard to keep abreast of Britain’s fast-moving young (35) Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of ...

The minor works of a genius are often more rewarding than the best that lesser mortals can bring. In the case of Paul Bunyan, the unclassifiable musical entertainment that had its South Florida ...

Paul Bunyan, the hunky lumberjack who could fell 23 trees in a single stroke, is pure Americana: ridiculous, annoying, glorious. And loaded with camp possibilities: In the late 1930s, two gay British ...

Paul Bunyan, gigantic, legendary Northwest logger, might well make music surge in some great U.S. symphony. Last week he was the hero—although he never appeared onstage—of an anemic operetta put up by ...

English National Opera’s production of Britten’s first opera Paul Bunyan, directed by Jamie Manton, started life at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2018 and now comes to the newly reopened Alexandra Palace ...