A biographical documentary that profiles composer-pianist Benjamin Britten ... with vocalist Peter Pears, for whom Britten created many of the central roles in his operas. Griffiths' film explores ...

Read our review of Welsh National Opera's Peter Grimes, starring Nicky Spence in Britten’s first operatic masterpiece, ...

Aldeburgh is set to welcome back visitors to the Red House, reopening after a winter hiatus. The historic home of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, the Red House, reopens on April 3. Set in a ...

Benjamin Britten was a child prodigy who went on ... Britten already had his own male lead, the tenor Peter Pears, with whom he would have an extremely fruitful but not untroubled personal and ...

Later, at the Royal College of Music, John Ireland was his composition teacher; Arthur Benjamin (of Jamaica Rumba fame ... When Auden departed for America in 1939, Britten and his friend, tenor Peter ...

If one mark of a great masterpiece is its ability to withstand continual reinterpretations, then Benjamin ... roulades (which Britten apparently derived from hearing Peter Pears sing medieval ...

Countertenor James Bowman on how Britten and Pears worked together James Bowman describes how Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears used to breathe together.

Benjamin Britten was an English composer who was born and lived in Suffolk. He started composing as a child and by the age of 18 he'd written more than 700 pieces! He wrote the opera 'Peter Grimes ...