Benjamin Britten’s letters to his life partner Peter Pears are intimate, honest and revealing – revealing of lives entwined at a time when their love was illegal. Could I, a 21st-century Northern ...

Oliver Knussen gave a persuasive reading of Britten’s only ballet music This year’s Aldeburgh festival ended on a high, with Oliver Knussen conducting the excellent Britten-Pears Orchestra in a rare ...

Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played tog ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The coastal festival, founded by the composer and Peter Pears in the 1940s, has built a reputation for rich, forward-looking programming. Benjamin Britten, whose history is ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Another month, another Turnage premiere. At a time when some composers seem reluctant to put pen to paper, ...

Mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker officially opens the Britten-Pears Archive today. Constructed in the grounds of The Red House in Aldeburgh - which Benjamin Britten shared with Peter Pears from 1957 ...

Despite a lifeline of £950,000 being awarded to Britten Pears Arts at Snape as part of the government’s Cultural Recovery programme, the charity may be forced to lose up to 15 jobs as part of a staff ...

Arts organisation Britten Pears is planning a major upgrade of its key Snape Maltings site as part of plans to raise standards and make it more welcoming. New chief executive Andrew Comben will ...

Benjamin Britten was born in Suffolk, England on November 22, 1913. He was one of the most prolific and versatile composers of the 20th century. He wrote operas, choral music, requiems .. as well as ...