Benjamin Britten News

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. A recipient of the 2022 Tony Awards Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, 54 Below celebrates Broadway musicals and writers of the past and present, promoting an ongoing engagement with their work.

Next week, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. A recipient of the 2022 Tony Awards Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, 54 Below celebrates Broadway musicals and writers of the past and present, promoting an ongoing engagement with their work. 

As part of New Wimbledon Theatre’s Studio Premieres Season, Turning The Screw is a thoughtful and absorbing play that explores composer Benjamin Britten’s infatuation with choir boy David Hemmings while he was writing The Turn Of The Screw.

ODC will conclude its 50+ anniversary celebrations with The Velveteen Rabbit, a cherished holiday tradition since 1986.

54 BELOW will present Tony Award® nominee Mary Bridget Davies in a concert reading of Virginia Woolf’s  A Room of One’s Own - a play with original music, on November 5th, 2022 at 7:00 pm. 

Artistic Partner Richard Egarr returns with a program that opens with works by British composers, including Benjamin Britten's evocative Serenade featuring tenor David Portillo and the SPCO's own Principal Horn, Jay Ferree. The concert bids farewell to England and continues with two beloved arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Finishing the program is Franz Schubert's 'Little C Major' Symphony - a deceptive nickname - it was Schubert's first fully symphonic work with a substantial wind section.

The Schenectady Symphony Orchestra is kicking off the 2022-2023 season by returning to Universal Preservation Hall for another collaboration with Skidmore College 3 p.m. Sunday, October 23.

One of the momentous events of the first season at the new Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center (and there were many) was the new production of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES in 1967.  Although it had its Met premiere in 1948 at the old house, it was the Tyrone Guthrie production  that cemented its place in the Met repertory.  Starring Jon Vickers as its protagonist, it served to introduce his portrayal to a generation relatively new to the opera.  For approximately the next twenty years Vickers would play Grimes at most revivals.  Since then, there have been others who have played the role-Philip Langridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, and Anthony Dean Griffey-and left their mark on this almost mythical role.

The 2022-2023 season of the Great Music in a Great Space concert series continues with Musica Sacra's Music for a Gothic Space on on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street). 

King Roger, or Król Roger in Polish, will be presented in a semi-staged production featuring a massive chorus of 120 singers and a 72 piece orchestra at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance 205 E Randolph St, in two performances only; Friday, November 18 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, November 20, at 3:00 PM.

“Siento que mi propósito es hacer que el mundo sea un poco mejor viviendo una vida saludable y sabiendo que el talento que me han dado está en esencia destinado a traer más luz al mundo”. Bajo esta mirada de la vida y de su arte, Hera Hyesang Park estará presente en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes el próximo sábado 15 de octubre, a las 12:00 horas, en un concierto organizado por la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal).  

La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal) celebran 40 años de trayectoria del violonchelista Ignacio Mariscal con un concierto que se realizará el domingo 9 de octubre en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes, a las 18:00 horas. 

The Royal Opera have announced their partnership with Balenciaga. The House has selected specific pieces from its Fall 2022 and Winter 2022 collections for the Last Days costumes.  

Fall for Dance, one of NYC’s premier dance festivals, had performances from 9/21 to 10/2 at New York City Center.

La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), a través de la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera, presentarán el estreno en México de la ópera El mundo de la Luna, del compositor austriaco Franz Joseph Haydn, el viernes 7 y domingo 9 de octubre, a las 19:00 y 18:00 horas, respectivamente, en el Teatro del Bosque Julio Castillo del Centro Cultural del Bosque. 

Special Offer: Don't miss Virginia Woolf's A Room Of One’s Own at Joe’s Pub on October 1.

Joe's Pub has announced upcoming programming, featuring Alysha Umphress’ Solo Show, Mary Bridget Davies Embodying Virginia Woolf, Broadway en Spanglish, Sounds of the Swana Region from The Habibi Festival, AzN PoP!, and more.

Following Birmingham Royal Ballet's best ever selling show with Carlos Acosta's new production of Don Quixote at the beginning of July, the Company returns to Sadler's Wells Theatre from 2-5 November to delight audiences with the London premiere of the triple bill, Into The Music.

American-born Finnish violinist Elina Vähälä appears for the first time with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) at performances the weekend of October 15-16.

The two-CD length album seeks to highlight diverse LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives, through revelatory performances of important songs by some of today’s leading composers, including the world premiere recording of Ben Moore’s Love Remained in a new version for tenor, and the commissioned title work, No Choice but Love.