Word: brittens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps, therefore, the future of modern opera lies on the stage and not in the old opera houses, which will still supply the voices and the size and the glamour for Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and their lessers. The composers seem to be aiming in that direction, for Benjamin Britten, as well as Menetti, has written operas for chamber orchestras and small cast. Britten's second, "The Rape of Lueretia," was on the Chicago stage last season. If it lands in a Broadway theatre with success equal to that of "The Medium" it will prove that Meuotti's work is more...
...Reds. Probably the only new opera of the season will be Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, which had its U.S. premiere at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Festival last year. A bigger and brighter premiere-that of Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace-had been promised, but postponed. Leftists scoffed at Manager Edward Johnson's explanation: that no adequate translation could be made in time. They hinted that the Met was showing its political bias. Actually, a translation had been made which pleased the Met, but was rejected by Russian officials in New York. A second...
...provide music, Hussey asked Britain's Benjamin Britten, composer of dissonant operas (Peter Grimes, Rape of Lucretia), to write a cantata to words from 18th Century Poet Christopher Smart's poem, Rejoice in the Lamb. Composer Michael Tippett wrote a special Fanfare for the occasion, which was considered most impressive when perspiringly played in the church's gallery by -the Northamptonshire Regimental Band...
...suite from "Carmen." These two stand-bys put the audience into just the mood into which they wanted to be put, and the two Khatchourian dances, at once delicate and vigorous, led to "Finlandia," which rounded out the first half of the program. After the intermission, Benjamin Britten's variations on Rossini provided a brilliant modern interpretation of this airy, yet worldly, composer...
...audience seemed to like Albert Herring, and roared for the composer-conductor. But some critics found loose parts that they had not detected in earlier models. Said the London Times: "Mr. Britten is still pursuing his old problem of seeing how much indigestible material he can dissolve in music." Added another critic: ". . . There are certain pages . . . that seem to betray hasty composition...