A new biography of Benjamin Britten being published in Britain to commemorate the late composer’s 100th birthday contends that he suffered from syphilis and that he may have contracted the venereal ...

While clicking through Britten 100, the website dedicated to the centenary of British composer Benjamin Britten, you might begin to suspect that the composer is not exactly in danger of being ...

Born in 1913 to a music-loving mother who wanted her son to become a musician, Benjamin Britten, the celebrated British composer, wrote no fewer than 534 works by the time he was 14. In this crisply ...

In his new biography Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music, Neil Powell writes of the birthday fluke: “As if that were not omen enough, he was given the first name not only of his father’s young brother ...

The hagiographic, the psychosexual, the paedocentric, the epistolary, the political, the musical: biographers have over the decades angled Benjamin Britten every which way for their portraits.

LONDON — The tiny brick studio where composer Benjamin Britten wrote such works as “Death in Venice,” “Phaedra” and the Third String Quartet has been declared a listed building, giving it protection ...

Benjamin Britten is the greatest British composer of the 20th century. Yet there is no snug fit between him and any obvious form of national identity. "I am absolutely incapable of enjoying Elgar for ...

There was a ripple of excitement as the orchestra boarded the bus to Siena but, being the new boy, Benjamin Britten sat alone. At 20 years old, the composer was starting to be recognised on the ...

A life-sized statue depicting a famous composer as a child has been unveiled in his hometown following a three-year campaign. The bronze sculpture of Benjamin Britten has been installed near the ...

English National Opera’s staging of Britten’s 1947 opera Albert Herring - Alastair Muir Seething beneath the comic surface of Britten’s witty 1947 opera Albert Herring is social criticism of the ...

Two new plays about Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania on her Tunisia-set documentary, and folk duo Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell. Show more Kate Molleson talks to Kaouther Ben Hania ...