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 ...

Three fine soloists were joined by the excellent Tiffin Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs alongside the London Philharmonic Choir and the London Symphony Chorus whose pianissimo singing left us with a much-need ...

Edward Gardner brings tremendous discipline and emotional power to Britten's War Requiem, crowned by an outstanding ...

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, ...

Looking to watch Benjamin Britten Peace and Conflict? Tony Britten's Drama film is available through several streaming and digital platforms. It's currently streaming on Stingray Classica Amazon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The man who put British opera on an international stage and changed the UK’s musical map for ever, his pacifism and his sense of being an outsider inspired much of his most memorable writing Starting ...

"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 ...