Ben and Imo at Orange Tree Theatre review: a small gem of a play - 4/5 Erica Whyman’s efficient production retells the story ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If Curlew River is the best and most moving of Britten's three church parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace is the most colourful and exotic. It also has humour; and Nebuchadnezzar gave Sir Peter Pears ...