In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler advanced his war on democracy as his troops marched relentlessly across Europe to seize power. Protesting against the violence unleashed by Hitler’s enablers were ...

Benjamin Britten's opera created a theatrical and musical revolution in England's music - an opera which combined great sweeping orchestral writing with brilliant storytelling and searing vocal lines.

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 ...

When plotting out his first season as Minnesota Orchestra music director, Thomas Søndergård decided to focus his winter visit on two countries: Russia and England. After celebrating the new year with ...

In the past three years, Manhattan concert-and operagoers have heard plenty of English Composer Benjamin Britten’s music (Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned ...

Benjamin Britten started composing as a child, and later returned to some of his early melodies to adapt them into his Simple Symphony. We'll enjoy it during our music today beginning at 9 a.m. on ...

Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the London Symphony Orchestra was, of course, Mahler's Ninth Symphony, the farewell of all farewells. But on a happier note, Rattle led a performance of Benjamin ...

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 ...

BOSTON — What can music teach us about war? As images of the catastrophe in Ukraine flood our daily lives — the crumble of bombed city blocks, the looming plumes of black smoke, the obscenity of ...

The most terrifying moment I know in Western music is the gathering of the mob in the third act of Benjamin Britten’s 1945 opera, “Peter Grimes,” set to open at the Metropolitan Opera on Oct. 16. More ...

Christmas music from Latvia: The Kamer (KAHM-er) Youth Choir and leader Maris Sirmais (MAHR-ees seer-MYCE) are joined by harpist Ekaterina Suvarova (soo-vahr-OH-vah) for excerpts from Benjamin Britten ...

Mark Ravenhill’s play Ben and Imo tells the story of Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst over the nine months in which they worked together on the opera Gloriana, which was performed at Covent Garden in ...