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Britten 100 at Aldeburgh

The Guardian join with Aldeburgh Music to celebrate Benjamin Britten's centenary on 22 November 2013

22 June 2020

  • Grimes on the Beach Aldeburgh Beach 17, 19 & 21 June A week of open-air performances of Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh beach directed by Tim Albery. The singers are amplified and the orchestra is recorded from the concerts. ‘Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the Peter Grimes section of George Crabbe’s poem The Borough. The “borough” of the opera is a fictional village which shares some similarities with Crabbe’s, and later Britten’s, own home Aldeburgh, on England’s east coast, around 1830.’ (Wikipedia) Photograph by David Levene Aldeburgh England 11/6/13

    House music: classical critics' watching and listening picks

    This week in our series in which critics tell us what they’ve been listening to at home, Rian Evans luxuriates in heady Szymanowski and Schoenberg, smells the brine in Aldeburgh and is impressed by an end-of-year double bill

27 November 2014

  • Suffolk schools sing at Aldeburgh's Friday Afternoons

    Aldeburgh Music's Friday Afternoons: Watch it live

  • Suffolk schools sing at Aldeburgh's Friday Afternoons

    Britten's legacy lives on with 10 brand new commissions

26 November 2014

  • Friday afternoons trailer

    Friday Afternoons: the Britten celebration everyone can sing along to – video

    This Friday, in association with Aldeburgh Music, the Guardian will stream live from Snape Maltings a children's celebration of folk songs reinterpreted in exciting ways by today's leading composers, including Rachel Portman, Nico Muhly, Jason Yarde, Sally Beamish and Talvin Singh

22 November 2013

  • Turn of the Screw, Glyndebourne Opera 2011

    Round Britten quiz

  • Britten 100: children sing Friday Afternoon songs

    Watch choirs across the UK celebrate Britten's centenary – live!

21 November 2013

  • child singers

    Singing for Britten: commemoration of composer Benjamin spreads worldwide

    Thousands of child singers in tribute to English composer on centenary of his birth as small project becomes 'viral' event

  • Marion Stein and Benjamin Britten

    Britten centenary: Marion Thorpe on her friendship with the composer

    Tom Service: Marion Thorpe knew Britten for almost 40 years. In a rare interview for broadcast, she talked to me about their relationship

  • Roots

    Inspired by Britten: Folk songs reinterpreted - video

    Inspired by Benjamin Britten's arrangements of folk songs, Aldeburgh Music's Faster than Sound programme took the original folk songs and invited six musicians to reinterpret them for a concert earlier this autumn.

20 November 2013

  • Britten100 Canticles, Brighton Festival

    Staging Britten's Canticles: 'Everything about them is potent'

  • Britten centenary: Watch the staged Five Canticles

19 November 2013

  • Grimes on the Beach at the Aldeburgh festival.

    Britten centenary: Grimes on the Beach - video

  • Benjamin Britten

    Britten's introduction to Peter Grimes

25 June 2013

  • Still from Grimes performance

    Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach - video

    One of the most eye-catching projects of Britten's centenary year has been the 'remarkable, and surely unrepeatable' Grimes on the Beach. Aldeburgh festival's stunning outdoor production was filmed live and is currently being edited for cinematic release in September. We have an exclusive two-minute clip from the film, courtesy of Grimes on the Beach Film Ltd.

18 June 2013

  • Peter Grimes on the beach

    Grimes on the Beach - review

    A wonderfully potent setting for an opera whose every bar is permeated by the sea, staged by Tim Albery with immense skill, writes Andrew Clements

12 June 2013

  • Grimes on the Beach at the Aldeburgh festival.

    Peter Grimes on the Beach? Shiver me tenors!

    Freezing temperatures, mighty winds, shifting sands … can this attempt to stage Britten's great opera Peter Grimes on a Suffolk beach possibly succeed? Tom Service pops along to find out

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