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

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 ...

Natalie Abrahami and Michael Levine’s imaginative production is brilliantly creepy and insightful. A first-rate cast of adults and children do not put a foot wrong ...

(L to R) Briana Hunter as Zoe, Adrienne Danrich as Ida and Brandie Inez Sutton as Young Ida with (background, L to R) Aundi Marie Moore as Lucy, Victor Ryan Robertson as Uncle Percy in Opera Theatre ...

Outside, the snow had begun to fall, rapidly covering the huddled passers by buried in all manner of furs, evidence of the sudden decline in temperature. Yet the warm glow of the Conservatory lights ...

Tamara Wilson as Brünnhilde in dress rehearsal of Santa Fe Opera production of Wagner's 'Die Walküre' at the Crosby Theatre in Santa Fe, N.M. in July 2025. Curtis Brown / Santa Fe Opera SANTA FE, N.M.

The new work is Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, and no opera written since the days of Puccini has had so much advance praise. In Purcell’s Steps. In an age when even opera’s best friends are calling ...

Colin Graham, the theatrical director and designer, who died on Friday at the age of 75, staged many of the operas of Benjamin Britten and directed the world premieres of all of them from 1954; a ...

English National Opera (ENO) will present a semi-staged production of Benjamin Britten's comic opera Albert Herring, directed and designed by Antony McDonald for a limited run: Monday 13 and Thursday ...

Oliver Mears’ production (pictured below, both production images by Camilla Greenwell), originating here at Snape Maltings with Britten Pears Arts before travelling on to co-host the Royal Opera, also ...

Operas were still rolling off English Composer Benjamin Britten’s promised one-a-year production line, but the new 1947 model seemed to have some rattles. In the Glyndebourne Festival opera house, ...