Arts Council England won itself many new enemies when, in 2022, it announced that, for English National Opera to keep its £12million grant, it would have to move to Manchester – as as if to say, ...

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 ...

Immersive because it was designed specifically for the refurbished Howard Assembly Room inside the Grand Theatre buildings in Leeds, with the audience mainly on two sides of the long performance space ...

Designed by Anna Fleischle, the Loxford church hall is a symphony of MDF, lino and enthusiastically patterned soft-furnishings – it’s all so familiar you can almost smell it (disinfectant, shoes and ...

Although Britten’s chamber opera is that rare beast, a lyric comedy that’s genuinely funny, its parochial mood makes it hard to bring off – or, at least, to convince an audience that it ought to be an ...

Virtue is not its own reward — at least, not in Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring,” where the title character receives 25 pounds for leading a chaste life. He hasn’t had much choice; tied to his ...

The busybodies of proper English village life are brilliantly skewered in Benjamin Britten's devastatingly satirical Albert Herring, onstage at Vancouver Opera for four performances only. Fast-paced, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Los Angeles Opera’s production of Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring,” ...