Tenor Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears and (Edward) Benjamin Britten at National portrait gallery

Philip Gossett: when Britten’s talent was still not acknowledged

8 May 2012

In 1945 many intellectuals thought that the grand opera was dead and gone. They were proved wrong, when Benjamin Britten wrote its first work. Ahead of our next “Prima delle prime” conference, we asked our guest speaker, musicologist Philip Gossett (below), why the British composer had to undergo a sort of ostracism in the postwar […]

Benjamin Britten

“Prima delle prime” series: Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes”

4 May 2012

On Thursday May 10, from 6pm, in the Arturo Toscanini foyer at La Scala theatre, the seventh appointment of “Prima delle prime” public talk will be dedicated to Benjamin Britten‘s Peter Grimes. On this occasion professor Philip Gosset will speak about the British composer’s opera, performed at La Scala from May 19 to June 7, conducted by Robin […]