Benjamin Britten News

The GRAMMY️-winning Experiential Orchestra (EXO) will continue its 2025-2026 season, titled Origins, running from November 2025 through May 2026. Learn more here!

Los Angeles Children's Chorus will launch its landmark 40th anniversary season with Every Child Sings, a celebratory benefit concert that brings together the choir's devoted community of families, alumni, and supporters.

Wigmore Hall will present a special weekend commemorating the 400th anniversary of John Dowland's death, featuring countertenor Iestyn Davies. The event includes six concerts exploring Dowland's influential music.

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin have unveiled the 2026–27 season—Nézet-Séguin’s 15th as music and artistic director—full of epic musical events, bold artistic experiences, and new musical journeys.

The Grammy Award–winning Los Angeles Children’s Chorus has announced its 40th anniversary season for 2026, featuring performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and LA Opera, a debut at the Oregon Bach Festival, benefit concerts, masterclasses, and annual spring and winter concerts.

Factory International will present a new exhibition by Ai Weiwei and other premieres at Aviva Studios in Spring 2026. Learn more about the full upcoming season here!

Geneva Concerts will welcome the trailblazing contemporary company Boston Dance Theater (BDT) to the Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva NY, on Friday, February 6, at 7:30 pm.

Los Angeles Ballet will mark its 20th anniversary with a special season at The Wallis Annenberg Center, featuring a tribute to George Balanchine, a classic favorite, a world premiere, and an extended holiday schedule of THE NUTCRACKER.

Phoenix Chorale will present TRANSCENDENCE at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, featuring choral and orchestral works by Arvo Pärt, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Ola Gjeilo.

International performer Michael Crawford is probably best known the world over for originating the title character in The Phantom of the Opera in the West End, on Broadway, and an extended engagement in Los Angeles. But his seventy year career goes far beyond that one show. Prior to The Phantom of the Opera Mr. Crawford appeared regularly on the West End in such productions as Barnum, Black Comedy, Flowers for Algernon, and Billy. You might also remember him from his performance of Corneilus Hackl in the movie version of Hello Dolly. He also appeared in EFX at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as well as having a very successful concert and solo recording career.

The Turn of the Screw is a classic ghost story, but something deeper lurks beneath the surface. We tumble into a world of ambiguity, where the boundaries between supernatural phenomena and inner psychology are blurred.

The renowned company, Dutch National Ballet (DNB) is performing at New York City Center through Saturday, November 22nd.

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Mozart’s beloved masterpiece Così fan tutte. This glamorous rom-com returns to Lyric in a sun-soaked 1930s-era seaside country club setting.

The Royal Ballet season continues with Perspectives: Balanchine, Marston, Peck. A triple bill that will supposedly “ignite the imagination” - stir, perhaps; ignite, not quite.

The Park University International Center for Music Orchestra will conclude the 2025 portion of the ICM's 2025-26 concert season with its fifth annual “Intimate Christmas with the ICM Orchestra” event.

Los Angeles Ballet has announced its 20th anniversary 2025–2026 season, marking a major milestone for the city’s longest-operating professional classical ballet company.

The Royal Ballet will perform Perspectives, a programme of one-act ballets.  A world premiere by Cathy Marston features as well as the UK premiere of Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go.  George Balanchine’s ballet Serenade opens the evening.

The Boston Civic Symphony launches its 101st season on November 9, 2025, at Jordan Hall under the direction of Music Director Francisco Noya. The 2025–26 season includes four concerts blending classical masterworks with contemporary pieces.

Ballet Arkansas once again proved that storytelling through movement can be just as chilling and evocative as any spoken tale with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which haunted the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts October 9–12. Choreographed by the ever-brilliant Michael Fothergill, this adaptation of Washington Irving’s ghostly classic mesmerized audiences with an intoxicating blend of grace, suspense, and gothic beauty—all set to an exquisite score featuring music by Dimitri Shostakovich, Francis Poulenc, Alfred Schnittke, Benjamin Britten, and Arnold Schoenberg.

Celebrated choreographer and director Lynne Hockney has been involved in Sir Peter Hall’s iconic version of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Glyndebourne since 2001. Now playing for the first time in the venue’s Autumn season, the production has been revived regularly since its premiere in 1981, bringing Shakespeare’s enchanting story of magic and mayhem to life. BroadwayWorld spoke to Hockney about her long association with the production, Sir Peter Hall’s enduring vision and how no one involved in the production is more important than anyone else.