The fine acoustics also make Britten’s chamber orchestra sound vivid and punchy, and conductor Bassem Akiki drives the drama ...

The opening scenes play out on what appears to be a relatively spare, shifting interior – doors, beds and blocks constantly reconfigured – before the lake scene brings the production’s central image ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst - George C. Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Alex Bender/Denis de Marney Back in 2013, ...

It’s hard to think of many works of art that centre on a man subsuming his time and talents in order to encourage a woman’s prodigious creativity – the same cannot be said of the reverse. With the RSC ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baritone Brian Mulligan is stepping in to replace Scotland's Iain Paterson, who has encountered visa trouble, joining a massing of vocal and orchestral forces on the Davies Hall stage to perform ...

Kempthorn ultimately felt spurred to realize her vision in 2019 in response to the Knight Arts Challenge Akron, in which artists compete for a matching grant to undertake a creative initiative about ...

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...

The house in question was home to Benjamin Britten and his partner, the vocalist Peter Pears, who moved into the property in 1957. According to an official release, ‘shaped by curiosity, hospitality ...