Benjamin Britten's 'Peter Grimes' comes to the Israeli Opera in a haunting production by Polish director Mariusz Treliński, ...

For this month’s Slate Book Review, I wrote about at a new biography of Benjamin Britten. In that book, author Neil Powell bridles a bit at the reductive assessment of scholar and critic Richard ...

Classic FM’s Zeb Soanes is joined by leading musicians in a community campaign to install a statue of much-loved composer Benjamin Britten on the seafront in Lowestoft. Born in 1913 in Lowestoft, East ...

Composer, conductor and pianist, Benjamin Britten (1913-76) unquestionably ranks as one of the 20th century's major musical figures, especially celebrated for his operatic masterpieces, "Peter Grimes, ...

ALDEBURGH, England – The rugged, pebbly beach in this small coastal town looks out onto the limitless expanse of the North Sea. On a recent evening at dusk, the light was flat, the sky low and vast, ...

Benjamin Britten moved back to Suffolk and founded the Aldeburgh Festival and helped build the Snape Maltings Concert Hall The birthplace of Benjamin Britten that was his seafront family home for more ...

Zeb Soanes, vice chairman of the Britten as a Boy project, with sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley, and an alabaster sculpture of Benjamin Britten as a boy A statue of Benjamin Britten as a boy "is in the ...

Though I edit the classical music section at Goings On About Town, I’m also a composer, and the composer part of me is still pinching itself that the music of a modern giant, Benjamin Britten, was ...

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 ...