Including titles by Kurt Weill and Antonio Salieri.

The mad scene: one of opera’s most thrilling institutions.

From starting their own charities to writing operas together, discover some of classical music’s most prolific couples!

Storms capture the human imagination, inspiring awe and fear in equal measure.

An autumnal assortment of songs in German, French, English, and even Swedish, each with their own take on the fall season.

Jared Blajian, cellist and Kuang-Hao Huang, piano perform works by Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten, live at the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

Music and sports may seem diametrically opposed, but these artists — including a pitching ace-turned composer and an aspiring goalkeeper-turned opera sensation — prove otherwise

Conductor Philippe Jordan and the San Francisco Symphony join forces in Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, a tremendous work embodying the composer’s deep pacifist beliefs.

Osmo Vänskä leads the CSO in Orff’s Carmina burana featuring Joélle Harvey, Reginald Mobley and Hugh Russell. Plus a Seiji Ozawa-conducted performance of Britten’s Young Person’s Guide.

Alban Gerhardt plays Dvořák’s deeply moving Cello Concerto, and we hear works by Britten and Clyne.

A program for Memorial Day including Gerald Finzi’s Farewell to Arms and Benjamin Britten’s Ballad of Heroes.

A motley medley of music inspired by birds of all feathers!

A Britten canticle for countertenor, tenor, and piano; a Dvořák piano trio.

Another packed summer of live music awaits.

We conclude the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra broadcast season in triumphant fashion, with an excerpt from Britten’s Peter Grimes and Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.

Enjoy this festive celebration brimming with beautiful music for the season.

This week, Osmo Vänskä leads the CSO in Orff’s Carmina burana featuring Joélle Harvey, Reginald Mobley, and Hugh Russell. Included in the program is Montgomery’s Banner and Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus, as well as Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.

Music by Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar.

The 2023 BBC Proms season gets off to a whirlwind start with a series of Nordic delights and music by Benjamin Britten and Bohdana Frolyak.

Benjamin Britten’s mysterious and spellbinding ghost story-turned-opera is presented by the Budapest Festival Orchestra under the baton of Iván Fischer.

The season embarks on explorations of both staples and forgotten gems of Renaissance and Early Music repertoire.

Music by Josephine Lang, Benjamin Britten, Ottorino Respighi, and Giacomo Puccini.

Alan Gilbert conducts two works by English composer Benjamin Britten in this program from 2013. The Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with Michael Slattery and Philip Myers as the soloists is followed by the Spring Symphony with soloists and chorus.

“My job as a singer, if I’m doing my job correctly, is no different than what a curator does with a beautiful work of art.”

The English conductor returns to Chicago Opera Theater to lead Britten’s comic masterpiece later this month.