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Benjamin Britten

(1913 - 1976)

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The Operas of Benjamin Britten

 

Operas:     Title (date of composition and libretto)

 



Paul Bunyan
Operetta Prolog and 2 Acts - Wystan Hugh Auden
5 May  1941 New York, Columbia University
1976 BBC London

Peter Grimes Oper
Prolog and 3 Acts, op. 33 - Montagu Slater
7 Juny 1945 Sadler's Wells Opera London

The Rape of Lucretia
Kammeroper 2 Acts, op. 37
Ronald Duncan after André Obey
12 July 1946 Glyndebourne

Albert Herring
Komische Oper (Kammeroper) in 3 Acts (5 Bildern)
Eric Crozier, after Guy de Maupassant
20 Juny 1947 Festspiele Glyndebourne

Let's make an Opera
Kinderoper op. 45: The Little Sweep  - Crozier
14 Juny 1949 Jubilee Hall Aldeburgh

Billy Budd
Oper
a 4 Acts, op. 50
Edward Morgan Forster / Eric Crozier after Herman Melville
1 Dec. 1951 Covent Garden Oper London

Gloriana
Oper
a 3 Acts, op. 53 - William Plomer
8 Juny 1953 London

The Turn of the Screw
Kammeroper Prolog
o and 2 Acts, op. 54
Myfanwy Piper after Henry James
14 Sept. 1954 Teatro Fenice Venice

Noyes Fludde
Kinderoper, op. 59 - Chester Miracle Play
18 Juny 1958 Pfarrkriche Orford / Suffolk

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Oper
a 3 Acts, op. 64 - Shakespeare
11 Juny 1960 Festspiele Aldeburgh

Curlew River
Kirchenparabel op. 71 - William Plomer after Juro Motomasa
13 Juny 1964 Orford Parish Church

The Burning Fiery Furnace Ballade
Kirchenparabel, op. 77 - Plomer
9 Juny 1966 Oxford Church (Suffolk)

The Prodigal Son
Kirchenparabel, op. 81 - Plomer
10 Juny 1968 Kirche von Oxford

Owen Wingrave
Television-opera 2 Acts, op. 85
Piper after James
16 May  1971 (BBC London)

Death in Venice
Oper
a 2 Acts, op. 88 - Piper after Th. Mann
16 Juny 1973 The Maltings, Snape



 

Other texts:

 

War Requiem (1962)

 

- Karadar Bertoldi Ensemble - Studio Informatico Anesin -