Noye’s Fludde: Benjamin Britten’s. Interpretation of the Chester Play by Peter Happé

“…Dans les années cinquante, Benjamin Britten se proposa d’adapter le la pièce du cycle médiéval de Chester, Noah’s Flood. …”
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Voices of the Unseen: Benjamin Britten’s Reading of The Turn of the Screw by Hubert TEYSSANDIER

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“PASSACAGLIA” IN THE OPERA OF THE 20ᵗʰ CENTURY. THE INTERLUDE NO.4 FROM THE OPERA “PETER GRIMES” BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN by Gabriela COCA

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Regards sur un paysage anglais : « Seascape » de W.H. Auden à Benjamin Britten by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…Auden’s poem “Seascape” and other artistic languages such as painting and music since the poem was actually set to music by Benjamin Britten. In keeping with this inter-semiotic approach, the main structural and rhetorical elements of the poem will be discussed, and more particularly the stylistic devices that the musical work itself seems to echo through a combination of rhythmical, melodic and harmonic patterns which all serve to enhance the suggestive power of the text. …”
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Performing rustics: pastoral moments and masques in Henry Purcell’s King Arthur (1691) and Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana (1953) by Catherine HOFFMANN

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John Piper et Benjamin Britten : le renouveau de l’opéra anglais et ses décors by Sophie Aymès

“…From 1946 the artist John Piper designed sets for eight of Benjamin Britten’s operas. In this article, John Piper’s contribution to the renaissance of English opera is considered in the wider context of the artistic and political reconstruction of England after the Second World War. …”
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De Pictures from a Life à Letters from a Life : exaltation de la vie de Benjamin Britten by Gilles Couderc

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Le Songe d’une nuit d’été de Benjamin Britten : Nouvel éclairage scénique de l’héritage shakespearien by Maéna Py

“…Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream was composed and first performed in 1960, at a time when the performing arts were undergoing massive changes. …”
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A Dinner Engagement (1954) de Lennox Berkeley : un opéra-bouffe anachronique ? by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…The instrumentation follows that of Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring. …”
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Le viol de Lucrèce de Britten : un livret d’opéra qui revisite les fondamentaux du genre by Pascal Terrien

“…After composing Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten desired to go back to the basics of the genre. …”
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Britten et l’art de la parabole by Gilles Couderc

“…Between 1960 and 1971, Benjamin Britten seems to abandon large-scale opera in favour of more intimate pieces with a particularly obvious Christian message, his three "parables for church performances," which revisit medieval miracle plays through a specific musical language and stagecraft. …”
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Gloriana de Britten et le rêve de l’opéra anglais by Gilles Couderc

“…The composition of Benjamin Britten’s sixth opera, Gloriana, originates from a conversation about emblematic national operas, the lack thereof in the British repertory and the need for Britten to compose such an opera to coincide with the Coronation of the young Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. …”
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