Benjamin Britten

...aromas wafted, apt red wines lurked and the ghosts of WH Auden and a gangly, twentysomething Benjamin Britten perhaps still walk. Britten belonged to both John (initially) and Myfanwy, yet she made him her own. It was John Betjeman's...

In this article: Myfanwy Piper, John Piper, Malcolm Williamson, Alun Hoddinott, Easter, Shell Guides, and The Turn of the Screw

...he has chronicled an imagined meeting between two other stars in our artistic firmament the poet WH Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. It is essentially a play within a play. Actors rehearse an imagined meeting between Auden and...

In this article: London, WH Auden, National Theatre, Richard Griffiths, Alan Bennett, The History Boys, and National Theatre

...Tony Awards and became a feature film. Bennett's play focuses on two now-dead British treasures -- poet W.H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten -- who in life were prickly, complex characters. The play features some familiar Bennett...

In this article: Alan Bennett, W.H. Auden, The History Boys, The Madness of King George, London, The Guardian, and Daily Mail

...limits and not giving a damn about the consequences, that is hugely invigorating. The central characters are W H Auden and Benjamin Britten. Auden, now a bossy old bore has returned to Oxford in 1972, just a year before his death.

In this article: Alan Bennett, National Theatre, Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings, The History Boys, Death in Venice, and W H Auden

...mistaken for a rent boy. And in the second, far superior, part we watch an imagined encounter between Auden and Benjamin Britten. If one adds that Carpenter steps out of the action to become a choric commentator and that the actors...

In this article: Alan Bennett, Richard Griffiths, Humphrey Carpenter, Alex Jennings, National Theatre, The History Boys, and Anxiety

...years, between Auden and his erstwhile collaborator, friend and psychological prot�g�, the composer Benjamin Britten. The latter is excellently portrayed in both his comic bassoon-up-the-bum inhibitedness and his tragically recessed...

In this article: W.H. Auden, Alan Bennett, Russell Harty, Nicholas Hytner, Richard Griffiths, Humphrey Carpenter, National Theatre, Death in Venice, and Thomas Mann

...poet WH Auden in a play set in a rehearsal room as a group of actors work through a play about Auden and Benjamin Britten." In the play-within-the-play, Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice,...

In this article: Richard Griffiths, Alan Bennett, Nicholas Hytner, WH Auden, National Theatre, The History Boys, Michael Gambon, and Frances de la Tour

...ranged from Renaissance and early baroque polychoral (multi-chorus) fare to 20th-century works by Frank Martin, Franz Biebl, Benjamin Britten and John Tavener. The Washington Symphonic Brass and organist William Neil also took part both as...

In this article: Franz Biebl, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Washington

...(sometimes a tenor is used). As an extended prologue to "Dido," McGegan took us through a Purcell sampler that piled on the Benjamin Britten references -- such as the suite from "Abdelazer," whose Rondeau was turned by Britten into the...

In this article: Henry Purcell, Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Susan Graham, Dido and Aeneas, and Abdelazer

...Studio Theatre, uses John Gay's text, with alterations by Tyrone Guthrie, and a score edited and orchestrated in 1948 by Benjamin Britten and further revised by David Matthews, based on Johann Pepusch's original assembly of traditional...

In this article: The Beggar's Opera, Johann Pepusch, John Gay, and David Matthews