The small dinner party was assembled in haste at the partly destroyed gothic mansion on Frankfurter Strasse in the week after Kristallnacht. On November 10, 1938, the second night of the ...

Quote this to any British person over the age of 18 and they’ll be momentarily amused, recognizing Peggy Mitchell’s classic “EastEnders” catchphrase, and then turn to confusion. I know because I’ve ...

Odyssey Opera’s spring festival of British works got off to an auspicious start last week with a stellar production of Vaughan Williams’s “Sir John in Love,” a rarely spotted but substantial ...

Google has dedicated its latest doodle to Amanda Aldridge, an Afro-British opera singer and teacher who released more than 30 songs and dozens of instrumental tracks in the 1800s. The tech giant ...

Dr. Johnson’s definition of opera, in his dictionary of 1755. as “an exotic and irrational entertainment has always seemed not only agreeably pithy but thoroughly British. Operatic composition has ...

Odyssey Opera, a Boston-­??based opera company dedicated to exploring the full spectrum of adventurous repertoire, today announced THE BRITISH INVASION, a month-­??long opera festival of ...