Broadcaster Zeb Soanes, vice chairman of the Britten as a Boy project, visited sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley on the day it was announced the target had been reached A statue of Benjamin Britten as a boy ...

For this month’s Slate Book Review, I wrote about at a new biography of Benjamin Britten. In that book, author Neil Powell bridles a bit at the reductive assessment of scholar and critic Richard ...

The man who put British opera on an international stage and changed the UK’s musical map for ever, his pacifism and his sense of being an outsider inspired much of his most memorable writing Starting ...

I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to composer anniversaries but this year, marking 100 years since the birth of Benjamin Britten, has been absolutely fascinating for me. I am now living proof that ...

Scottish Opera marked the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's death at Lammermuir Festival with a compelling programme of vocal ...

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 ...

Looking to watch Benjamin Britten Peace and Conflict? Tony Britten's Drama film is available through several streaming and digital platforms. It's currently streaming on Stingray Classica Amazon ...

Composer, conductor and pianist, Benjamin Britten (1913-76) unquestionably ranks as one of the 20th century's major musical figures, especially celebrated for his operatic masterpieces, "Peter Grimes, ...

"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 ...

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 ...