Is Billy Budd Benjamin Britten’s greatest opera? Personally, I would go farther and say it’s not only Britten’s greatest ...

This revival of Michael Grandage’s atmospheric production of Britten’s opera has numerous fine performances: Thomas Mole and Sam Carl are persuasive as Billy and Claggart, and Allan Clayton’s luminous ...

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.

Get all the top news & discounts for Opera & beyond. Throughout his homage to Britten, Mr. Conlon has devoted much of his time to working with young musicians in Southern California's music schools ...

nepalnepal — The Earl of Harewood may have been exaggerating when he described the premiere of “Gloriana” as “one of the great disasters of operatic history.” Still, the Benjamin Britten opera, ...

The year 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Arguably Britain’s most important composer born after 1900, his homophonic surname, in retrospect, seems to have heralded ...

Composer Daron Hagen. The opera Billy Budd was written by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by E.M. Forster and based on a short novel by Herman Melville, PLUS there are a lot explosions and pirates!

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