"In the history of art,” observed the philosopher Theodor Adorno mischievously, “late works are the catastrophes.” Not disasters: catastrophes — a spectacular subversion of an artist’s oeuvre, all ...

The tension between Benjamin Britten’s public and private lives holds the secret to understanding his creative psyche and his operatic characters Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin ...

A terminal illness two weeks ago proved perhaps the most rapidly mutating medical condition of recent times. On Friday, it was a heart condition. On Sunday, it had surprisingly turned into tertiary ...

While clicking through Britten 100, the website dedicated to the centenary of British composer Benjamin Britten, you might begin to suspect that the composer is not exactly in danger of being ...

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 ...

It was an opera that sealed Britten’s reputation as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. But now it has emerged that original version of The Rape of Lucretia was branded “obscene” and ...

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A new biography of Benjamin Britten being published in Britain to commemorate the late composer’s 100th birthday contends that he suffered from syphilis and that he may have contracted the venereal ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. My first contact with the music of Benjamin Britten was at school. Aged nine, I sang “The Plough Boy”, a song whose ...