Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears
Britten and Pears were collaborators and lovers for 39 years. Learn more about their life and work together, meet their creative circle, and step into their home – The Red House, Aldeburgh.
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Wes Anderson and the music of Benjamin Britten
A decade after Moonrise Kingdom brought the music of Benjamin Britten to a brand new audience, Hannah Lack finds that for…
Who was Benjamin Britten?
Benjamin Britten was one of the twentieth century’s great composers. He is particularly known for his operas, but also for choral works, and the many…
Inside Benjamin Britten’s creative process: A film by Emily Richardson
Britten’s creative inspiration came from where he lived and worked. How did composing while walking in this particular Suffolk landscape shape the…
My Beloved Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Toward the end of his life Benjamin Britten urged his authorized biographer, Donald Mitchell, to “tell the truth about Peter and me.” Britten’s nearly…
Imogen Holst: In Her Own Orbit
As her Aldeburgh home opens to the public for the first time in a decade, we remember an unsung hero of 20th century music...
Archive Treasures: Reynolds Stone, Britten, Pears and their Bookplate
During recent times when catching up on reading has been a viable option for many of us, find out how Britten and Pears’ unique and beautiful…
Archive Treasures: Travel and travails - musicians on the road in 1950
One of the joys of the Britten Pears archive is the light it sheds on everyday practicalities, the nuts and bolts of Britten and Pears’ life and…
Britten & Pears
Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears were together from 1939 until Britten’s death in 1976. Yet during Britten’s lifetime, neither spoke publicly about…
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten was one of the twentieth century's great composers. He is particularly known for his operas, but also for choral works, and the many…
Who was Peter Pears?
Peter Pears is considered to be one of the great singers of the twentieth century. Born in Farnham, Surrey, he was the youngest of Arthur and…
Archive Treasures: Thirty-seven love – Britten, Pears, sport and recreation at the Red House
Romanticism dies hard: over two hundred years since the movement spread Sturm und Drang over Europe, it still informs our vision of what a…
Archive Treasures: A Spiritual Home – Britten, Pears and The Red House
The former homes of famous people are referred to, variously, as ‘house museums’ or ‘personality houses’. They are effectively physical ‘biographies’,…