Benjamin Britten News

The Yale Philharmonia will return to Carnegie Hall for the first time since 2012 and the first time ever under internationally renowned conductor Peter Oundjian.

The Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center will present holiday favorites for 2024, including The Nutcracker and more. See full holiday programming and see how to purchase tickets.

English National Opera has announced the first wave of plans for a major new partnership between the company and the city-region of Greater Manchester for the next three years, enabling ENO to be firmly established within Greater Manchester by 2029.

Concord Women’s Chorus will present the holiday season concert “The Harper’s Song: A Ceremony of Carols.' The performance is conducted by CWC Artistic Director Jane Ring Frank, accompanied by Daniel Goldsmith, piano, and Carrie Kourkoumelis, harp.

Both monumental works were perfectly matched in their brashness and sensitivity, helmed and rendered with great panache by two outstanding young artists: a program to delight all tastes

The Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center will present holiday favorites for 2024, including THE NUTCRACKER, and A SERAPHIC FIRE CHRISTMAS, and more. Learn more about the performances and how to get tickets here!

The Park University International Center for Music Orchestra will perform its annual holiday concert next month in Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel on the University’s flagship Parkville Campus.

The sounds of the season will ring in Central Massachusetts this December as Music Worcester presents three different programs of holiday music

Music Director Kent Tritle will lead “Classics for Christmas: Mozart, Bach & Beethoven,” a festive program with two renowned guest artists: Mozart’s ebullient motet Exsultate at Carnegie Hall.

In collaboration with Ballet Hartford, Claire Kretzschmar Productions has announced the upcoming multi-state tour of A Ceremony of Carols, a Christmas program set to premiere in New York City, Philadelphia, and Winston-Salem.

Isabella Bywater ratchets up the tension, as Ailish Tynan and Jerry Louth shine as the governess and her male charge.

Composer John Adams collaborates with the New York Philharmonic for a series of performances, featuring his own works and other contemporary pieces, highlighting his role as Artistic Partner.

The Park University International Center for Music Orchestra will hold its fall concert, its first of the season, on Friday, Nov. 1, starting at 7:30 p.m. in Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel on the University's flagship Parkville Campus.

Source/Filter Music Collective has announced the West Coast premiere of SANCTA SUSANNA, a horror opera by Paul Hindemith, at Heritage Square Museum on October 24-25. Learn more about the show including who is in the cast and how to get tickets.

Hailed by The Boston Globe as “simply the best,” the Quartet will perform an outstanding program of musical works by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Sibelius, and the local premier of a work by Jamaican-born composer, Eleanor Alberga.

English National Opera will present the opportunity for audiences in London to experience a new production of Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece The Turn of the Screw based on Henry James’s ghost story, with seven performances at the London Coliseum between 11 and 31 October 2024. 

San Diego, CA-Bodhi Tree Concerts (BTC) will present a free reading of a new play, White Savior by La Jolla native playwright Catherine Filloux, on October 6, 2024, at 7 PM at the Vision Center, 4780 Mission Gorge Place, San Diego.

Source/Filter Music Collective will present the West Coast premiere of Paul Hindemith's Sancta Susanna, an immersive horror opera. Learn more about the site-specific horror opera production and how to purchase tickets.

California Symphony announced its season launch with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and a pop-up event featuring San Francisco's Amateur Music Network on September 21-22.

“What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?” More often than not, when Shakespeare is adapted into different formats, the text is largely lost but the story remains - not so in this case. Benjamin Britten and his partner Peter Pears opted to go without a librettist, instead taking Shakespeare’s words and shuffling parts of the play about a bit. It certainly makes sense that work from such a lyrical playwright could be directly transformed into song, and by and large it feels like quite a natural transition.