Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Adapted from the Shakespeare play, Britten's Dream promises an evening of ...

English National Opera’s staging of Britten’s 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of Britten’s witty 1947 opera Albert Herring is social criticism of the ...

Actress Emma Bell (Governess) during a dress rehearsal of The Turn of the Screw, performed by the Dallas Opera.((Ben Torres / Special Contributor)) "It is a curious story," the tenor sings at the ...

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, ...

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"It is long, it is hard, it is arduous. You can’t sleep on the podium in this piece," conductor James Conlon told THR of the three-hour opera, which begins its run Feb. 22. By Jordan Riefe Billy Budd ...

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 ...

They say important works of art speak differently to each succeeding generation, their meaning morphing and refracting as social circumstances change and history unravels. That was certainly true on ...