The Israeli Opera concludes the year with War Requiem by British composer Benjamin Britten. Originally commissioned to mark the 1962 consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral after its destruction by ...

Vishnevskaya in 1963, the year she recorded and gave her first public performance of the War Requiem CREATIVE genius and the inspiration gleaned from close personal friends were always inseparable in ...

A beautiful symphony hall is like a sanctuary. It’s a place where members of a community gather to share a common experience. With phones off and conversations muted, there is communion between people ...

Chamber Singers of Iowa City and the University of Iowa School of Music Choruses and Orchestra will combine to perform Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29 at Hancher ...

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 Megill ...

The National Children’s Chorus and American Youth Symphony collaborate in a tour de force performance of Benjamin Britten’s colossal and deeply moving War Requiem. This work, completed in 1962, is ...

Baritone Brian Mulligan is stepping in to replace Scotland's Iain Paterson, who has encountered visa trouble, joining a massing of vocal and orchestral forces on the Davies Hall stage to perform ...

With the Russian soprano Irina Lungu, the British tenor Allan Clayton and the German baritone Matthias Goerne, a star cast has been found that ties in with the history of the work in a special way: ...

The BBC has pulled an advert for a pacifist organisation that was due to appear in the programme for the Prom’s performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem”. The choral work, which is a meditation ...

One of classical music’s most unlikely popular successes, Britten’s War Requiem was premiered 50 years ago in Coventry Cathedral. The composer taped the work shortly afterwards and the resulting LP ...