Some of Britten’s best music is written to Auden texts: the Ballad of Heroes, the Hymn to St. Cecilia. Also some of the worst: Paul Bunyan, the first try at opera for both, flopped dismally when it ...
Dead Man Walking. performed by English National Opera, with Michael Mayes as Joseph De Rocher and Christine Rice as Sister Helen - Alastair Muir Opera flourishes: in spite of all the financial ...