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 ...

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 ...

Mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker officially opens the Britten-Pears Archive today. Constructed in the grounds of The Red House in Aldeburgh - which Benjamin Britten shared with Peter Pears from 1957 ...

The Royal Philharmonic Society is jointly marking Benjamin Britten’s centenary and its own bicentenary by teaming with the Britten-Pears Foundation to commission an important new work. Innocence and ...

One of the most interesting DVD sets to come my way has been issued on the Decca label, titled "The Britten-Pears Collection." All of the selections on the four discs are taken from television ...

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The Royal Opera House and Britten Pears Arts today announce full casting details for The Rape of Lucretia. This new staging of Benjamin Britten's unsparing chamber opera opens at Snape Maltings, ...

Benjamin Britten is a long way from having invented the concept of the all-around musician, but he certainly is its most significant embodiment today. In addition to producing a series of musical ...

In July 1945, some two months after the end of the Second World War in Europe, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the composer Benjamin Britten went on a concert tour in Germany to play for displaced ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Turn of the Screw was Britten's final chamber opera and was written in just ...