In the first of two programmes in the Britten centenary year, Catherine Bott looks at the musical relationship between Benjamin Britten and Henry Purcell. Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Paul ...

AS composer Benjamin Britten’s centenary celebrations reach north of the Border, there are some welcome rare collaborations among our big orchestras IT’S true to say that all of Britain is celebrating ...

"It's kind of a perfect double-bill tragedy." That's how choreographer and director Mark Morris describes his program next week at Tanglewood. In the first half, Morris will direct fellows of the ...

If you're a composer, there are a couple of good ways to ensure that your work will continue to be played, discussed and thought about after you're gone. One, of course, is to write music of ...

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 ...

Catherine Bott continues her comparison of two of the greatest setters of the English language, Benjamin Britten and Henry Purcell. Presenter/ Catherine Bott, Producer/ Paul Frankl for the BBC ...