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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

10am Visit to the Red House. Because it’s BB’s actual birthday, St Cecilia’s Day, we are allowed in free and every room, upstairs and downstairs, is open to the public. What a splendid collection of ...

ALDEBURGH, England (Reuters) - Some people visit Aldeburgh on England's stony east coast to see where Benjamin Britten set his harrowing opera of mob vengeance "Peter Grimes." Others are blissfully ...

The Musical Times is the oldest continuously-published music journal in the world, founded in 1844. For more information, including an extensive archive of obituaries of leading musicians from ...