A statue of Benjamin Britten as a boy will be put up in his home town next year after fundraisers reached their target of ...

A statue of Benjamin Britten as a boy "is in the factory being cast" and is expected to be "unveiled this year" after a fundraising campaign. The life-size bronze sculpture will be installed near ...

The production makes it clear that this is an opera about the fraught class dynamics of childcare, where the potential for exploitation is ever-present.

The former home of a renowned composer and conductor has been protected with Grade II listed status. Imogen Holst lived at 9 Church Walk in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, from 1964 until her death in 1984, and ...

Later, at the Royal College of Music, John Ireland was his composition teacher; Arthur Benjamin (of Jamaica Rumba fame) taught him piano. Britten’s unique voice was quick in arriving and soon after ...

In 1952, she was invited to help Britten as he worked on the opera Gloriana, marking the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Holst accepted and she became Britten’s musical assistant, and later ...

TAMPA — Straz Center’s Opera Tampa recently announced its 30th anniversary season featuring the work of Benjamin Britten, ...

A concert with a “vivid and exhilarating tale” to tell is one not to be missed when it is performed next month.

but classical music lovers will know it best as the home of 20th–century composer Benjamin Britten. The composer, conductor and pianist, best known for the epic War Requiem, founded the annual ...

Zeb Soanes, vice chairman of the Britten as a Boy project, with sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley, and an alabaster sculpture of Benjamin Britten as a boy A statue of Benjamin Britten as a boy "is in the ...

Martin Handley talks to Paul Kildea about Britten and his place in 20th-Century music ...