The LA Opera is in the midst of a three year Britten cycle, which will conclude with their performances of Billy Budd in February 2014.  In conjunction with the opening of Billy Budd, Robert Fink (Department of Musicology), Efrain Kristal (Departments of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese), and Kenneth Reinhard (Departments of English and Comparative Literature) are organizing a conference on “Benjamin Britten and Literature” at UCLA on Feb. 20 and 21, 2014.

Professor Neufeld will deliver a talk, “’So much is confusion!’ Britten and the public role of expressive ambiguity.”

For more information and the full program, see the conference website.