A new biography of Benjamin Britten being published in Britain to commemorate the late composer’s 100th birthday contends that he suffered from syphilis and that he may have contracted the venereal ...

While clicking through Britten 100, the website dedicated to the centenary of British composer Benjamin Britten, you might begin to suspect that the composer is not exactly in danger of being ...

So little is known about the queer lives” of Schubert, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Smyth, Poulenc, and Britten, highlights a ...

The hagiographic, the psychosexual, the paedocentric, the epistolary, the political, the musical: biographers have over the decades angled Benjamin Britten every which way for their portraits.

Two new plays about Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania on her Tunisia-set documentary, and folk duo Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell. Show more Kate Molleson talks to Kaouther Ben Hania ...

There are certain composers — Berlioz, Liszt and Bruckner among them — who will never be to everybody's taste yet whose music will always inspire impassioned devotion. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) is ...