Absent from the Metropolitan Opera for 15 years, Benjamin Britten's great maritime tragedy "Billy Budd" has made a brief but welcome return in the season's closing days. full story ![]()
Britten's "Turn of the Screw" at City Opera undermined by horror movie gimmicks
msn.com (3 months and 24 days ago)

Why has Britten's opera Gloriana never achieved the success it seems to deserve?
telegraph.co.uk (1 day ago)

The New York City Opera interprets “The Turn of the Screw,” Britten’s ghostly chamber work, for the company’s second production of the season.
nytimes.com (3 months and 23 days ago)

Tomorrow Arthaus Musik will release a new DVD of a live recording of a performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw (currently available for pre-order from Amazon.com). The recording was made in...
examiner.com (23 days ago)

Two characters serve as male and female choruses, commenting on the action in Britten’s “Rape of Lucretia,” presented by the Mannes Opera.
nytimes.com (1 month and 6 days ago)
When it comes to operatic ghost stories, none is more creepily effective than Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw."
miamiherald.com (3 months and 24 days ago)
NEW YORK (AP) -- When it comes to operatic ghost stories, none is more creepily effective than Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw."...
ap.org (3 months and 24 days ago)
One of the most harrowing final scenes in all of opera is the ending of Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites," when the nuns condemned by the French Revolution walk one by one to the scaffold, singing a gradually thinning chorus punctuated by the slashing sounds of a guillotine.
miamiherald.com (1 month and 13 days ago)
The premiere of Britten’s opera, written for the coronation of Elizabeth II was a famous flop: the Queen was in...
thetimes.co.uk (7 days ago)

Benjamin Britten's score for The Beggar's Opera is a marvel, says David Fanning.
telegraph.co.uk (3 months and 16 days ago)
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