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Three giants

By 'giants' I'm not referring to Petroc Trelawny's three guests on the Radio 3 Music Matters book review tomorrow , who are: one legendary giant, the trenchant and delightful Robert Tear; one VIP, Elaine Padmore, Director of Opera at the Royal Opera, who was naturalness itself; and I/me. I allude rather to the three very thick books we've all been reading over the past few weeks, and their subjects...

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On the Show: December 6 Our 1st Birthday

The Fool and the Opera celebrates its 1st birthday with literary luminaries, dynamic divas and a touch of magic! Join host Dan Vo and blog reviewer Paul Williamson as they explore works by Shakespeare, Thomas Mann and Tennessee Williams which have been turned into operas by Thomas, Gounod, Puccini, Benjamin Britten and Andre Previn.

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Lost on the infinite sea

Billy Budd, Benjamin Britten’s sixth opera, received its world premiere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on December 1, 1951. In this clip of the Epilogue, taken from a December 11, 1966, BBC Television broadcast, Peter Pears reprises the role he debuted 15 years earlier, Captain Edward Fairfax Vere. Charles Mackerras conducts the London Symphony [...]

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Boy wonder growing up - Britten's Diaries

Benjamin Britten was uncommonly precocious as a boy. He kept hundreds of early compositions, meticulously ordered, almost like an old man in a boy's body. Read about the Red House exhibition in Aldeburgh and the new catalogue of his juvenilia HERE. Now there's a new edition of Britten's letters from 1928 to 1938, " Journeying Boy : The Diaries of the young Benjamin Britten" ed John Evans,...

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Farewell, Swedish Elisabeth

Very sad to learn that another of our greatest singing actresses, Elisabeth Soderstrom, has followed Behrens to the grave. She had more of an innings than I realised, reaching the relatively grand age of 82, and yet it seems like only yesterday I caught some of her later performances. I came to Strauss's marital semi-comedy Intermezzo through hearing her termagent Christine Storch (aka Pauline Strauss)...

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'A storm of tears'

The weekend newspapers in the UK were full of articles on Alan Bennett, celebrating his new play, The Habit of Art , which opens this week. His subject is an imagined meeting between W H Auden and Benjamin Britten as both approached the end of their lives (in reality, they went their separate ways in the early 1940s). Auden’s relationship with Britten reached its creative peak in the 1930s, producing...

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Philip Langridge at Wigmore Hall

As an interpreter of Benjamin Britten, Philip Langridge has long been esteemed as the natural successor to Peter Pears;

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The Diaries Of Benjamin Britten

My loyal companion Aaron writes from his exile in Oregon to suggest that opera fans here on JMG would enjoy Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten, which comes out today. A review in the Guardian UK headlined Boys, Bitching, Brilliance notes: Benjamin Britten's early years are often ignored, overshadowed by the spectacular success of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, when he was 31....

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Diaries reveal lonely but driven Britten

Writings show composer as lonely but driven and with low opinions of his rivals Benjamin Britten's early years are often ignored, overshadowed by the spectacular success of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, when he was 31. But now, the diaries the composer kept for a decade from the age of 14 are to be published and they reveal a lonely but driven schoolboy; a young man exposed to a glamorous world...

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Fine voices from the past return

A couple of my all-time favourite music broadcasters have resurfaced in the past week or so, much to my pleasure and surprise. I was in the car one lunchtime last week (heading for Currys to get more DV tapes, if you must know), listening to BBC Radio 4 as usual, when Brain of Britain 's familiar theme tune started up and Russell Davies appeared. Russell is the new presenter now that Robert Robinson...

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Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was. . .

With its’ title taken from the composer’s Suite of English Folk Tunes, Op. 90, Tony Palmer’s film Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… is a solid documentary assembled from interviews, rehearsal clips, photographs and other audio-visual materials to create a vivid portrait of the composer.

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Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Charms La Scala

Robert Carsen’s production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not new, as the La Scala playbill suggests.

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Aldeburgh Festival — New Buildings, New Birtwistle Operas

Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s early opera, Punch and Judy, premiered at Aldeburgh in 1968. Benjamin Britten reportedly walked out. Now Birtwistle is himself the pre-eminent British composer, whose work has long since become part of the Aldeburgh tradition. This year’s Festival opened with two Birtwistle premieres, The Corridor and Semper Dowland, simper dolens.

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Ian Bostridge at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

In a recent Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert featuring twentieth-century instrumental and vocal compositions Ian Bostridge sang Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations under the direction of principal conductor Bernard Haitink.