Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our writer Michael Grandage directed Billy Budd for Glyndebourne in 2010 (pictured). It makes a return to the opera house this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English National Opera’s staging of Britten’s 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

Earlier this autumn, the Metropolitan Opera honored the centennial anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth on November 22 by re-staging its 1996 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Some ...

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