Complete Information About Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas & Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia in Houston at Morrison Theater at Brockman Hall for Opera. A thought-provoking double bill pairs works ...

Benjamin Britten’s 1945 opera “Peter Grimes,” set among the hard lives in a fishing village, depicts the ease with which rumor, anger and fear can triumph over truth.

The birthplace of Benjamin Britten that was his seafront family home for more than 20 years has been put on the market. The 10-bedroom commercial guesthouse in Lowestoft, Suffolk, has an asking ...

Dido and Aeneas, thought to have been composed around 1688, dramatises a story from Virgil’s Aeneid, the pre-Christian saga about a Trojan hero who survives that nasty business with the wooden ...

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Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” is a rare beast. Most only get the chance to conduct the piece once or twice in their lives, but director of choral organizations and conducting Prof. Andrew ...

Maine State Ballet will present the elegance of “Britten” and the joyous nostalgia of “Western Roundup” in several performances beginning on Saturday, Oct. 12, at Maine State Ballet’s ...

Anna Dowsley stars in Opera Queensland’s and Circa’s Dido and Aeneas. Gift this article. 3 min read. 12:17PM July 12, 2024. Updated 1:20PM July 12, 2024. ... (Benjamin Bayl conducting) ...

On Friday October 6 – two weeks today – a number of leading musicians who shared in Britten’s journey, by performing in premieres or acting as advocates for his finest compositional creations, will ...

Dido and Aeneas Playhouse, QPAC, until July 27 ★★★★. Some operas – romantic ones – drag on for hours. Not so the one surviving opera by baroque English composer Henry Purcell; it ...

Maine State Ballet will present the elegance of “Britten” and the joyous nostalgia of “Western Roundup” in several performances beginning on Saturday, Oct. 12, at Maine State Ballet’s ...