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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON — What can music teach us about war? As images of the catastrophe in Ukraine flood our daily lives — the crumble of bombed city blocks, the looming plumes of black smoke, the obscenity of ...

Born in 1913 to a music-loving mother who wanted her son to become a musician, Benjamin Britten, the celebrated British composer, wrote no fewer than 534 works by the time he was 14. In this crisply ...

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 ...

Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” directed by Deborah Warner in her Paris Opera debut, reintroduces a 20th-century composer to French audiences. By David Belcher The bitter and bloodthirsty ...

Mark Ravenhill’s play Ben and Imo tells the story of Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst over the nine months in which they worked together on the opera Gloriana, which was performed at Covent Garden in ...