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 ...

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Noye’s Fludde as performed in Moonrise Kingdom Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features Opera buffs know this as Benjamin Britten’s setting of an English miracle play about Noah’s Ark to his vivid, ...

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"It is long, it is hard, it is arduous. You can’t sleep on the podium in this piece," conductor James Conlon told THR of the three-hour opera, which begins its run Feb. 22. By Jordan Riefe Billy Budd ...

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 ...

Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's book The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a ...

They say important works of art speak differently to each succeeding generation, their meaning morphing and refracting as social circumstances change and history unravels. That was certainly true on ...

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