Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra – a work he called a cantata but which is more like sung psychodrama – uses the poet Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre to explore the fallout from the character ...

They say good things come in small packages. This adage certainly applies to Theatre Royal Bath's larger-than-life double bill of Benjamin Britten's Phaedra and newly commissioned ballet, Minotaur, in ...

Phaedra – Consumed with an uncontrollable lust for her stepson, Phaedra determines her only way out is death. Minotaur – Ariadne has betrayed home and country to help her lover slay the Minotaur – ...

LONDON — The tiny brick studio where composer Benjamin Britten wrote such works as “Death in Venice,” “Phaedra” and the Third String Quartet has been declared a listed building, giving it protection ...

God, it's good to have the Linbury back. The reopening of the Royal Opera House's second, smaller space last December after a lengthy redesign brought with it all kinds of possibilities. Wriggling ...