The operas of Benjamin Britten are - Paul Bunyan Peter Grimes The Rape of Lucretia Albert Herring Let's make an Opera Billy Budd Gloriana The Turn of the Screw Noyes Fludde A Midsummer Night's Dream Curlew River The Burning Fiery Furnace The Prodigal Son Owen Wingrave Death in Venice
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Falstaff
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Calls for religious reform. Operas. Epic poems. Symphonies. Philosophical texts. Scientific articles.
If you're referring to the alto range, then the really high male opera singers are called counter tenors. They are pretty rare voice types and there are not many operas with counter tenor roles. There are a few in baroque operas and then in some 20th century works of Benjamin Britten.
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Peter Grimes, by Benjamin Britten Albert Herring, also by Benjamin Britten Doctor Atomic, by John Adams
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Evelyn Barrett Britten is not a known author. It's possible you may be thinking of Evelyn Barrett or Benjamin Britten, two separate individuals who were authors and composers, respectively. Evelyn Barrett wrote romance novels, and Samuel Britten was a composer known for his operas and other musical works.
Whether is operas are great is a matter of personal taste. However, he has written many operas that are very well known, including "Tannhauser", "Lohengrin" and "Die Walkure".
operas
Italian composers write operas to Italian texts, just as German composers write them to German texts, and so on. Opera was invented in Italy, so many of its composers were Italian. There are operas in almost every language.
Falstaff
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Calls for religious reform. Operas. Epic poems. Symphonies. Philosophical texts. Scientific articles.
He wrote 39 operas as well as a few songs. and played paiona