Born in Lowestoft, living in Aldeburgh, the composer Benjamin Britten was a child of Suffolk and remained forever rooted in the county. Yet he always felt he remained an outsider, and the theme of the ...

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

English National Opera’s first shared production between London and Salford is a fluent and finely sung take on Britten’s 1947 comic opera. Antony McDonald’s lively staging gives the slender tale a ...

Benjamin Britten’s 1947 comic opera “Albert Herring” revels in the notion of being bad on purpose. The Dunster House Opera’s current production, which runs through Feb. 13, uses its formidable ...

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 ...

Comedy tonight! Who couldn't do with some just about now? And if there's music, too, so much the better. Into the breach, in the nick of time (which happens to be Thursday through Sunday), comes the ...

What better way to spend the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, which fell on Friday, than listening to one of his operas? They are the height of the British composer’s achievement, ...

Superb singing and playing anchor ENO’s first-ever Albert Herring, even if Antony McDonald’s semi-staging drains some of the fizz in the way it anchors the action Caspar Singh & cast (Photo: Genevieve ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Los Angeles Opera’s production of Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring,” ...

Designed by Anna Fleischle, the Loxford church hall is a symphony of MDF, lino and enthusiastically patterned soft-furnishings – it’s all so familiar you can almost smell it (disinfectant, shoes and ...