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 ...

When it comes to being inspired to pursue a career as a singer, Matthew Soibelman owes more of a debt to Sammy Davis Jr. than ...

Images for USCS's 2011 production of Albert Herring. Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images, Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.westsidestudioimages.com The UC ...

(L to R) Briana Hunter as Zoe, Adrienne Danrich as Ida and Brandie Inez Sutton as Young Ida with (background, L to R) Aundi Marie Moore as Lucy, Victor Ryan Robertson as Uncle Percy in Opera Theatre ...

English National Opera (ENO) will present a semi-staged production of Benjamin Britten's comic opera Albert Herring, directed and designed by Antony McDonald for a limited run: Monday 13 and Thursday ...

Colin Graham, the theatrical director and designer, who died on Friday at the age of 75, staged many of the operas of Benjamin Britten and directed the world premieres of all of them from 1954; a ...

"My subject is war and the pity of War... All a poet can do today is warn." These lines come from Wilfred Owen, a British poet and soldier who died at age 25 just one week before the armistice that ...