The fine acoustics also make Britten’s chamber orchestra sound vivid and punchy, and conductor Bassem Akiki drives the drama ...

Natalie Abrahami and Michael Levine’s imaginative production is brilliantly creepy and insightful. A first-rate cast of adults and children do not put a foot wrong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English National Opera’s staging of Britten’s 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of ...

(L to R) Briana Hunter as Zoe, Adrienne Danrich as Ida and Brandie Inez Sutton as Young Ida with (background, L to R) Aundi Marie Moore as Lucy, Victor Ryan Robertson as Uncle Percy in Opera Theatre ...

The Merola Opera Program returns this summer with four events in store: an opening recital, a Schwabacher Summer Concert , the Merola Grand Finale, and — as the season’s centerpiece — a new production ...

Outside, the snow had begun to fall, rapidly covering the huddled passers by buried in all manner of furs, evidence of the sudden decline in temperature. Yet the warm glow of the Conservatory lights ...

The new work is Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, and no opera written since the days of Puccini has had so much advance praise. In Purcell’s Steps. In an age when even opera’s best friends are calling ...

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

Colin Graham, the theatrical director and designer, who died on Friday at the age of 75, staged many of the operas of Benjamin Britten and directed the world premieres of all of them from 1954; a ...

Oliver Mears’ production (pictured below, both production images by Camilla Greenwell), originating here at Snape Maltings with Britten Pears Arts before travelling on to co-host the Royal Opera, also ...