WAVERLY — Partway through her sophomore wrestling season at Wartburg College, GraceBritten found herself participating in the sport in an entirely different way ... Britten jumped on the opportunity, and the rest is history.
Subsequently reworked for the stage, the piece has lingered in the shade of Britten’s other music-theatre works, dismissed as preachily polemical ... • Benjamin Britten’s godson happens to be ...
Some of the most well-known operas, such as “La Traviata” and “Otello,” are based on plays, and for “Curlew River,” Britten drew from the Japanese play “Sumidagawa” for its story of a woman driven to madness over the fate of her missing son.
A radiant Christmas celebration brought an emphatic account of Britten’s song cycle, together with past commissions by Welsh composers and newer works that perfectly complemented each other.