It may have languished in the bottom drawer for decades after its 1941 premiere, but Britten’s “Paul Bunyan” sure is a crowd-pleaser, making its neglect in a year of ubiquitous Britten celebration all ...

The legend of the lumberjack giant, Paul Bunyan, is so indelibly stitched into the mythology of Minnesota that most state residents would likely be surprised to find him the subject of an English ...

Entertaining the piece nevertheless is, if patchily, with longueurs, and music that veers between the brilliantly witty and individual, with echoes and pre-echoes of more familiar Britten, and a kind ...

Stephen Lord gets emotional when he talks about Benjamin Britten's first opera, "Paul Bunyan." Lines of narration spoken by the opera's main character sum up for Lord a uniquely American quality that ...

In my books, though, that ought to mean not just opera singers: if this latest showing had mixed its operatic protégés with music-theatre graduates, the whole thing might have pulsed even more with ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This year British Youth Opera (BYO) will showcase the next generation of opera ...

Paul Bunyan might seem an unlikely subject for an opera — particularly an opera written by two Brits when they were living in Brooklyn. Actually, what Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden turned out more ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Start with a group of folk tunes, throw in some rollicking Broadway numbers and a tongue-twisting song that would have made Gilbert and Sullivan proud and ...