British music was provided with a ... tried to establish an "English Bayreuth". Many composers were trying to establish an English opera, George Lloyd's Iernin (1934) was the most successful.

She is one of many composers with roots in former British colonies: Dominique Le Gendre, the first woman to be commissioned by the Royal Opera, was brought up in Trinidad; Fęlá Şowándé (1905 ...

The world of opera was shaken on the morning of November 29, 1924. Giacomo Puccini, the most famous composer of his time, had died in Brussels as a result of surgery for throat cancer. Or rather ...

British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage says that his musical compositions do not get “played much” on classical music radio ...

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer, famous for his operas ... In 1706 Handel returned to Germany to become court composer in Hannover. English audiences took to ...

Der Kaiser von Atlantis” was written in Theresienstadt by the Czech-Jewish composer Viktor Ullman, who was murdered. The teen ...

British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage says that his ... composed the music for the opera-version of Coraline, based on the novel of the same name by British author Neil Gaiman that was made ...

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that its next Composer-in-Residence, the renowned British composer Sir ... and his groundbreaking opera collaborations with playwright Martin ...