Earlier this autumn, the Metropolitan Opera honored the centennial anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth on November 22 by re-staging its 1996 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Some ...

Classic FM’s Zeb Soanes is joined by leading musicians in a community campaign to install a statue of much-loved composer Benjamin Britten on the seafront in Lowestoft. Born in 1913 in Lowestoft, East ...

A commemoration of the British composer Benjamin Britten, which was initially confined to his home county of Suffolk, has spread to 13 countries across the world. About 100,000 singers – most of them ...

Benjamin Britten moved back to Suffolk and founded the Aldeburgh Festival and helped build the Snape Maltings Concert Hall The birthplace of Benjamin Britten that was his seafront family home for more ...

The 100th anniversary of the birth of British composer Benjamin Britten was observed on November 22. Alongside the bicentennial commemorations of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi it was the third ...

There's a whole treasure trove of Britten-based delights over the weekend, when Radio 3 is in residence at Aldeburgh's Snape Maltings Concert Hall and in Britten's home town of Lowestoft for the ...

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TUNSTALL, England, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The voices of 650 youngsters singing Benjamin Britten's "Friday Afternoons" song cycle filled the concert hall he built in eastern England and wafted out over the ...

In his centenary year, the triumph of Benjamin Britten seems complete. It takes an effort of imagination to remember it wasn’t always so. During his lifetime there were always loud dissenting voices, ...

Simon Heffer is an author, historian and biographer. He also writes about politics and cricket for The Telegraph and is the editor of Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries. He sits in the House of Lords ...