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 ...

The Gonzaga University Choirs, under the direction of Timothy Westerhaus, will present a 100th Birthday Festival Concert tonight in honor of English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). Organist ...

Like most composers, Benjamin Britten left an extensive paper trail that included not only completed works but sketches, fragments, juvenilia and more. Tuesday's inventive and enjoyable concert at the ...

Benjamin Britten came to refer to his 1957 ballet score "The Prince of the Pagodas" as "beastly," and it wasn't only because the dance is about a princess who falls in love with a salamander.

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 ...

The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra under Music Director José-Luis Novo continued its 52nd season of great concert music last Friday and Saturday with a selection of music by three “B” (but definitely ...

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 ...

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 ...

But let's take a step back before we examine bits and pieces from his amazing output, and look at what he achieved over his lifetime. Britten, who died in 1976, was a gifted composer by any measure, ...