Benjamin Britten

Queer musicology is a new field dating from the 1990s based in part on the idea that if you're gay, then music by gay composers such as Benjamin Britten will sound different to you than it would if you were straight.

Archive 2007-01-01 GayandRight 2007

I know I don’t, I’ve listened to loads of different styles of music from all around the world and many eras and there is not much I’ve disliked as much as Hip-hop, except Benjamin Britten, that is.

Archive 2008-06-01 David Hadley 2008

I know I don’t, I’ve listened to loads of different styles of music from all around the world and many eras and there is not much I’ve disliked as much as Hip-hop, except Benjamin Britten, that is.

Notes and Comments: 05/06/2008 David Hadley 2008

In February there's The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten, which is about two ghosts who sexually abuse children, and then there's Rigoletto, which is about a teenage girl who gets abducted, raped, stabbed and stuffed in a sack. "

The Last Debate 2008

Speculation focuses on the sensitive subject of how much autobiography was in Benjamin Britten's depiction of Miles and Quint.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

In an age of shock-value opera stagings, it has become common to stuff the veiled implications of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw into one-dimensional little-shop-of-horrors productions.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

In an age of shock-value opera stagings, it has become common to stuff the veiled implications of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw into one-dimensional little-shop-of-horrors productions.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

Benjamin Britten's 1954 The Turn of the Screw perfectly captured the ambiguous sexuality and perverse supernaturalism of Henry James' 1898 novel, pitting an innocent governess against the uncertain subconscious of a pre-pubescent boy.

Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011

Speculation focuses on the sensitive subject of how much autobiography was in Benjamin Britten's depiction of Miles and Quint.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

The score, a masterwork by mid-20th century composer Benjamin Britten, equally teases and torments, hinting at "the drowning of the ritual of innocence," and near-pagan rituals among the children.

Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011