Rare Met revival of Britten's shipboard opera
NEW YORK (AP) -- 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
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Britten ghost story at City Opera
Britten's "Turn of the Screw" at City Opera undermined by horror movie gimmicks
msn.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
Music Review: ‘The Turn of the Screw,’ Britten Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music
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 (2 months and 24 days ago)
Music Review: Britten’s ‘Rape of Lucretia,’ Presented by Mannes Opera
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 (7 days ago)
Britten ghost story at City Opera
When it comes to operatic ghost stories, none is more creepily effective than Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw."
miamiherald.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
Britten ghost story at City Opera
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 (2 months and 24 days ago)
The Beggar's Opera, European Opera Centre and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Epstein Theatre, Liverpool
Benjamin Britten's score for The Beggar's Opera is a marvel, says David Fanning.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 16 days ago)
Review: Stirring revival of Poulenc opera at Met
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 (13 days ago)
There's a Ghost in the Machine
Behind the scenes as young actors rehearse "The Turn of the Screw," New York City Opera's 1980s-set version of the Benjamin Britten opera.
wsj.com (2 months and 28 days ago)
Ava June: Lyric soprano equally at home with Britten, Wagner and Italian romantic opera
Ava June was a supremely versatile lyric soprano, equally at home with romantic Italian opera and in the works of Benjamin Britten. She also coached, conducted masterclasses, and produced and directed performances throughout the country and abroad.
independent.co.uk (2 months and 10 days ago)
Albert Herring, Opera North, review
The young English tenor Alexander Sprague gives Ian Bostridge a run for his money in an otherwise flat production of Benjamin Britten's opera, says Rupert Christiansen.
telegraph.co.uk (3 days ago)
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