Britten News

The Estes Park Music Festival will present an exciting new addition to the Music Festival Winter Series featuring Jerilyn Jorgenson, violinist and Cullan Bryant on piano.

Hard to believe, but the tenor Philip Langridge reaches 70 next month. He gave advance notice of the event with a birthday recital, accompanied by David Owen Norris and the Doric Quartet, that attempted the almost impossible: to sum up in two hours a career that has perhaps been more varied than that of any other British singer of our time.

Britten: The Beggar's Opera, review Soloists, City of London Sinfonia, cond Christian Curnyn.

John Adams: "Nixon in China"; Robert Orth, Maria Kanyova and others, with Opera Colorado Chorus and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop .

A taut, angry production on the composer's home turf finds thrills aplenty still in an adaptation of James's ghost story Reviewed by Anna Picard The "soft, thick light" described in Old Suffolk, Henry James's memoir of his 1879 journey to Aldeburgh and seeing the submerged skyline of medieval Dunwich, hung low over Snape last weekend.

WH Auden is best-known as the craggy-faced genius who wrote such beloved poems as Funeral Blues, with its famous opening: "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,/ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,/ Silence the pianos and with muffled drum/ Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come." But for Alan Bennett , the poet was ...

Alan Bennett's new play at the National Theatre revisits the tortuous relationship between the poet and the composer Two geniuses meet after decades of estrangement.

A lusciously lurid reading of Rossini's comedy is irresistible, and Handel scores again Reviewed by Anna Picard Oh, the flaring nostrils! Oh, the quivering lips! Oh, the suave arch of a spit-slicked alpha-male eyebrow in glorious, sweat-beaded close-up! Played and filmed live in a "green screen" television studio, with computer-generated backdrops ...

ENO's The Turn of the Screw at the Coliseum, review Sir Charles Mackerras conducts a terrific performance of Britten's spine-tingling opera More than 60 years since his debut with the company at Sadler's Wells, Sir Charles Mackerras returns to English National Opera at the age of 83 to conduct an electrifyingly febrile and incisive account of The ...

American soprano Christine Brewer was born on 26 October 1955 and grew up in Illinois, where she attended McKendree University.

Frank Bridge's music was out of fashion even before his death in 1941, and took time to be rediscovered, despite the support of pupils such as Benjamin Britten.

The Brooks Center for the Performing Arts will welcome the East Coast Chamber Orchestra to the stage on Thursday, Oct.

If you're an adult and a music lover, chances are you learned something about orchestral music as a kid from two music-appreciation works that are still widely performed.

A revival of Benjamin Britten's spine-chilling adaptation of Henry James's 'The Turn of the Screw', by English National Opera, opens next week.

London, High camp, high art from Alan Bennett 13.10.09 National treasure: Alan Bennett has become more self-revealing in the past 10 years, writing in 2006 'homosexuality is a differentness I've never been prepared wholly to accept in myself' Grand old men: Britten came to resent the sexual criticisms of Auden Alan Bennett 's last play, The History ...

For all of us who aren't going to invest in a subscription, single tickets to Boston Lyric Opera's four-production season are now on sale.

The Mid-Columbia Mastersingers open the 2009-10 season Oct. 16 with a concert that will offer audiences a little bit of heaven on Earth.

West Dean College has announced a study day focusing on Britten's String Quartet No 3 with the Chilingirian Quartet at the College on Saturday October 4, 11am-4.30pm. The Chilingirian Quartet are Levon Chilingirian, Richard Ireland, Susie Meszaros and Philip De Groote.

Montgomery Symphony Orchestra jumps right into its 2009-2010 season Monday with something a bit unusual, something emotional and something dramatic.

Brittena TMs Death in Venice does not need gondolas or bridges to conjure a sense of place.