Chicago Opera Theater was the first Chicago opera company to perform the beloved works of Benjamin Britten in the city. COT presented the Chicago premiere of Albert Herring in 1979, staged by the late ...

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English National Opera’s staging of Britten’s 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of Britten’s witty 1947 opera Albert Herring is social criticism of the ...

lA Opera doesn't mess around when it comes to celebrating the upcoming centennial of Benjamin Britten's birth next year. Rather than another "Peter Grimes" or "Billy Budd," they've gone with "The Turn ...

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...

Highlighted by a sparkling production of Benjamin Britten’s comic opera “Albert Herring,” Lorin Maazel’s first Castleton Festival wrapped up its three-week run in rural Virginia during the weekend.

Unfairly or not, opera is often perceived today as the bastion of a cultural elite, an art form appreciated by those who revere tradition and social convention. But that’s precisely what makes it the ...

Born in Lowestoft, living in Aldeburgh, the composer Benjamin Britten was a child of Suffolk and remained forever rooted in the county. Yet he always felt he remained an outsider, and the theme of the ...

Britten’s librettist Eric Crozier transposed a Maupassant short story to rural Suffolk in the late 1940s. The plot revolves around the villagers’ inability to find a suitably virginal May Queen.

A Vancouver Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria production. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Friday, November 29. Continues on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday (December 5, 7, and 8) By the standards of ...