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Benjamin Britten

June 2024

  • Robin Tritschler - press handout image - © Garreth Wong - press handout image 2024

    Songs for Peter Pears album review – wide-ranging and lucid collection

    Irish tenor Robin Tritschler presentation of songs written for Benjamin Britten’s professional and personal partner of nearly 40 years is a fine achievement
  • Echo and Narcissus at the Ustinov Studio.

    Kim Brandstrup: Echo and Narcissus review – small miracles of mirroring

    This exquisitely formed dancework inspired by Greek myth explores desire and dysfunction

    • Sumidagawa/Curlew River review – Britten’s work reunited with its medieval Japanese inspiration

    • ‘I’ve always been a glass half full person’: Aldeburgh festival’s outgoing CEO Roger Wright

    • Other lives
      Claire Seymour obituary

April 2024

  • Intense, engaging … Isabelle Faust.

    Britten: Violin Concerto Chamber Works album review – bravura and brilliance as Faust turns to Britten’s violin writing

    Violinist Isabelle Faust, violist Boris Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov honour Britten’s exuberant works with vigour and determination

March 2024

  • Samuel Barnett and Victoria Yeates in Ben and Imo.

    Ben and Imo review – Mark Ravenhill races Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst towards a coronation deadline

  • Vivid colour: Roderick Williams as the voice of Dionysus with Mark Le Brocq as Aschenbach in Britten’s Death in Venice, staged by Welsh National Opera.

    Death in Venice review – Britten’s final opera soars in WNO’s captivating staging

  • WNO rehearsals for Death in Venice

    ‘We’re all agog’: Behind the scenes at Welsh National Opera’s Death in Venice – in pictures

  • Compelling performances … Samuel Barnett and Victoria Yeates in Ben and Imo at the Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

    Ben and Imo review – Britten and Holst’s collaboration slides into cruelty

December 2023

  • The Turn of the Screw production photos taken on 30th of November 2023 in Bath 1st run

    The Turn of the Screw review – haunting, claustrophobic staging keeps the tension high

    Isabelle Kettle’s new production of Britten’s chamber opera works well in the tiny Ustinov studio, blessed with a strong cast and many imaginative touches

November 2023

  • Gifted generation … Auden and Britten.

    A hotbed of English radicalism? Auden, Britten and the unsung glory of the Group Theatre

    When they weren’t having screaming rows, the members of this overlooked 1930s collective changed the course of cultural history. Why isn’t it better known?

September 2023

  • Peter Grimes at the English National Opera.

    Peter Grimes review – grim but compelling, Alden’s nightmarish staging returns to Coliseum

    Everyone is traumatised in David Alden’s 2009 production of Britten’s opera. With Gwyn Hughes Jones and Elizabeth Llewellyn leading a standout cast, this is an evening of beauty and terror

July 2023

  • Sir Michael Tippett in May 1971

    ‘Fascinating’ Tippett letter reveals composer changed by prison

    Exclusive: Pacifist composer’s intimate 1943 jail letter ‘best Tippett discovery for 50 years’

June 2023

  • Dancers and viol players in The Art of Being Human, which had its UK premiere at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival.

    The week in classical: 74th Aldeburgh Festival; Werther – review

    From thundering Thorvaldsdóttir to late-night Bach, it’s a standout year for Britten’s music festival, while at the ROH Jonas Kaufmann made a subdued Werther

April 2023

  • James Bowman

    James Bowman obituary

    Countertenor with a clean, focused and lyrical approach to both early and new music, including roles in two Britten operas

December 2022

  • Duncan Rock (Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy) and Eleanor Dennis (Penelope) in Gloriana by Benjamin Brittem @ London Coliseum. An English National Opera production. (Opening 08-12-2022) ©Tristram Kenton 12-22 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Gloriana review – superb singing and smart staging illuminate Britten’s coronation opera

    English National Opera’s one-off performance of Britten’s uneven opera was very fine in every respect, with Christine Rice an exceptional Elizabeth I

November 2022

  • Anne Marie Stanley (Lucretia) and Carolyn Holt (Bianca) in The Rape of Lucretia.

    The Rape of Lucretia review – powerful, uncompromising and deeply disquieting

  • Anne Marie Stanley (Lucretia) Anthony Reed (Collatinus) BPA ROH The Rape of Lucretia © Camilla Greenwell 2022 2027-1

    An explosive act of violence: why Britten’s Rape of Lucretia speaks to our brutal times

October 2022

  • The town of Ludlow, Shropshire, England<br>View of the beautiful old town of Ludlow on a sunny spring day. The tower of St Lawrence's church seen above the other buildings.

    Raising their voices: why the English song festival is nothing about misty-eyed nostalgia

    We have no desire to become a musical version of Jacob Rees-Mogg, says the festival’s artistic director. Instead, we shine a light on neglected voices, challenge received opinions, and prove that ‘cowpat’ is not a musical insult
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