It’s hard to think of many works of art that centre on a man subsuming his time and talents in order to encourage a woman’s prodigious creativity – the same cannot be said of the reverse. With the RSC ...

Violinist Julian Rhee, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s second “Artist of Distinction” for its 2025-26 season, solos in ...

In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler advanced his war on democracy as his troops marched relentlessly across Europe to seize power. Protesting against the violence unleashed by Hitler’s enablers were ...

When plotting out his first season as Minnesota Orchestra music director, Thomas Søndergård decided to focus his winter visit on two countries: Russia and England. After celebrating the new year with ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The coastal festival, founded by the composer and Peter Pears in the 1940s, has built a reputation for rich, forward-looking programming. Benjamin Britten, whose history is ...

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 ...

Kempthorn ultimately felt spurred to realize her vision in 2019 in response to the Knight Arts Challenge Akron, in which artists compete for a matching grant to undertake a creative initiative about ...

“If I could live nine lives like a cat, I don’t think I would ever have done all the things I like to do enough times.” “Britten entered my consciousness as a young person, the same time as I was ...

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