Benjamin Britten died at 63 without knowing he had tertiary syphilis, which led to the heart failure that eventually killed him, according to a biography of the composer, whose centenary is being ...

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 ...

The tension between Benjamin Britten’s public and private lives holds the secret to understanding his creative psyche and his operatic characters Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin ...

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 ...

Scallop (2003) by sculptor Maggi Hambling, a tribute to composer Benjamin Britten, is seen on Aldeburgh beach, eastern England November 21, 2013. REUTERS/Olivia Harris By Michael Roddy TUNSTALL, ...

It was an opera that sealed Britten’s reputation as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. But now it has emerged that original version of The Rape of Lucretia was branded “obscene” and ...

"In the history of art,” observed the philosopher Theodor Adorno mischievously, “late works are the catastrophes.” Not disasters: catastrophes — a spectacular subversion of an artist’s oeuvre, all ...