It was thanks to Cambridge University that Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote the music for a satirical production of the Aristophanes comedy, The Wasps. He was invited to compose it by the fabulously named ...

Speaking of wasps, there's a very well-known piece by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. In 1909, he wrote very buzzy incidental music for Aristophanes' play The Wasps. Here's a piece by ...

A free virtual reading of “The Wasps,” a Greek comedy by playwright Aristophanes, will be presented Thursday, March 4, as part of a University of Wyoming Department of Modern and Classical Languages ...

Aristophanes wrote The Wasps with a comical, political edge. In 1909 the composer Ralph Vaughn Williams updated that edge, and now the Hallé Symphony Orchestra has updated it even more.

"What's that buzzing?" "Bees?" "Hmmm, sounds too angry for a bee." "Ouch!" This music - composed for a revival of the c.400 BC Greek play by Aristophanes - has a sting in its tail.

In one of Aristophanes' other politically anthropomorphic plays, The Wasps, was devised as an attack on the failures of Athenian democracy. It featured a chorus of actors dressed in black and ...