Benjamin Britten was a child prodigy who went on to compose some of the 20th century’s greatest works. Peter Parker salutes a man whose genius was fuelled by personal passions. Neil Powell (Benjamin ...

Benjamin Britten moved back to Suffolk and founded the Aldeburgh Festival and helped build the Snape Maltings Concert Hall The birthplace of Benjamin Britten that was his seafront family home for more ...

Benjamin Britten's early years are often ignored, overshadowed by the spectacular success of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, when he was 31. But now, the diaries the composer kept for a decade from ...

A terminal illness two weeks ago proved perhaps the most rapidly mutating medical condition of recent times. On Friday, it was a heart condition. On Sunday, it had surprisingly turned into tertiary ...

Charles Hazlewood examines Britten's work alongside Bridge's Three Idylls. Duration: 1:03:10 Britten: Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra Charles Hazlewood looks at Britten's Young Person's Guide to ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Roy J. Britten, a Caltech biologist who discovered that the mammalian genome includes large quantities of repetitive DNA sequences that do not serve as blueprints for genes, has died. He was 92.

The birthplace of Benjamin Britten that was his seafront family home for more than 20 years has been put on the market. The 10-bedroom commercial guesthouse in Lowestoft, Suffolk, has an asking price ...