The tension between Benjamin Britten’s public and private lives holds the secret to understanding his creative psyche and his operatic characters Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin ...

While clicking through Britten 100, the website dedicated to the centenary of British composer Benjamin Britten, you might begin to suspect that the composer is not exactly in danger of being ...

"In the history of art,” observed the philosopher Theodor Adorno mischievously, “late works are the catastrophes.” Not disasters: catastrophes — a spectacular subversion of an artist’s oeuvre, all ...

It was an opera that sealed Britten’s reputation as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. But now it has emerged that original version of The Rape of Lucretia was branded “obscene” and ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.