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 ...

The new work is Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, and no opera written since the days of Puccini has had so much advance praise. In Purcell’s Steps. In an age when even opera’s best friends are calling ...

(L to R) Briana Hunter as Zoe, Adrienne Danrich as Ida and Brandie Inez Sutton as Young Ida with (background, L to R) Aundi Marie Moore as Lucy, Victor Ryan Robertson as Uncle Percy in Opera Theatre ...

Tamara Wilson as Brünnhilde in dress rehearsal of Santa Fe Opera production of Wagner's 'Die Walküre' at the Crosby Theatre in Santa Fe, N.M. in July 2025. Curtis Brown / Santa Fe Opera SANTA FE, N.M.

Colin Graham, the theatrical director and designer, who died on Friday at the age of 75, staged many of the operas of Benjamin Britten and directed the world premieres of all of them from 1954; a ...

“If life were just love and if love were true, I would love you till my dying day...” So told Elizabeth I, the central character of Britten’s opera, her favourite and confidant Robert Devereux, Earl ...

“Last night a masterpiece was born, and it will outlive the lot of us,” declared London’s Sunday Graphic. Not all the critics were that ecstatic, but London seemed to agree last week that Benjamin ...

Oliver Mears’ production (pictured below, both production images by Camilla Greenwell), originating here at Snape Maltings with Britten Pears Arts before travelling on to co-host the Royal Opera, also ...