Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Adapted from the Shakespeare play, Britten's Dream promises an evening of ...

English National Opera’s staging of Britten’s 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of Britten’s witty 1947 opera Albert Herring is social criticism of the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Turn of the Screw was Britten's final chamber opera and was written in just ...

Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's book The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a ...

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...

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They say important works of art speak differently to each succeeding generation, their meaning morphing and refracting as social circumstances change and history unravels. That was certainly true on ...

"It is long, it is hard, it is arduous. You can’t sleep on the podium in this piece," conductor James Conlon told THR of the three-hour opera, which begins its run Feb. 22. By Jordan Riefe Billy Budd ...