Here are the best operas to look out for in 2025. Benjamin Britten's iconic opera follows a tormented fisherman, Peter Grimes, who finds himself ostracised by his community following the ...

In the 20th century, with the advent of Benjamin Britten, the English language gained a world-leading opera composer who ...

Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream from the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival.

Benjamin Britten was an English composer who was born and lived in Suffolk. He started composing as a child and by the age of 18 he'd written more than 700 pieces! He wrote the opera 'Peter Grimes ...

The patron saint of music blessed Britten with precocious gifts for he began playing the piano at two and was reading symphony and opera scores in bed at the age of seven. By his 10th birthday he had ...

Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) presents a special free public performance of composer Benjamin Britten’s 1958 work, NOAH’S FLOOD (Noye’s Fludde) on May 3 at 2pm at Symphony Hall. This participatory, ...

On the evidence of last night at the Wales Millennium Centre, Britten should continue to serve him well for years to come. In Melly Still’s new production for Welsh National Opera, Spence’s Grimes ...

Last year came Ben and Master David Hemmings (Kevin Kelly's Turning the Screw), followed by Ben and Imogen Holst according to ...