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The Aldeburgh Festival Spirit
What makes a festival so magical? How can we enrich our musical life with a touch of this special formula? Britten Pears Arts' CEO, Roger Wright,…![Britten with his sister Beth on her wedding day in 1937]()
Insights into Britten & Women
Dr Lucy Walker, curator of the current Red House exhibition, Britten & Women, gives an insight into some of the characters she chose to include in…![]()
Archive Treasures: Sentinels by the Reedbeds
Today’s Archive Treasure lives not at the Red House but some miles away at Snape; rather than being tucked into an archive box, it is…![portrait of Katy Thompson at Snape Maltings]()
Katy Thomson: My Year as a Britten Pears Young Artist
The Britten Pears Young Artist Programme celebrates 50 years in 2022. This year the format was turned on its head. Here a young artist reflects on the…![]()
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…![Portrait of Callum Given in the Concert Hall]()
My Week: Callum Given, Head of Community
Callum Given lead the team which runs Britten Pears Arts' work with local people until early 2023. The team aims to improve the health and wellbeing of…![A brown record cover saying 'The Music of Bali']()
Archive Treasures: Two Pianos and a Gamelan
The audio-visual collection in the archive of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears gives us a fascinating overview of the two men’s sound-world, the music…![Portrait of Anna Greenland in dungarees]()
Three minutes with Suffolk grower Anna Greenland
Anna Greenland is a vegetable gardener and cook at the heart of the organic growing movement. A descendant of a long line of gardeners, she spent three…![]()
An official history of the Aldeburgh Festival
Dr Nicholas Clark, Librarian at The Red House, looks back on the history of the Aldeburgh Festival...![]()
The Self in Process
Shruthi Rajasekar and Reylon Yount began their journeys as award-winning practitioners of traditional Chinese and Indian music. They each made a…![]()
Five women who inspired a space opera, and where to find them
Joanna Harries is a singer and co-producer of INTERSTELLA, a new opera project about women in space. In a series of short, interlocking one-woman…![]()
Spring Clean at Britten’s House
The Red House in Aldeburgh, Suffolk was home to Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears for most of their lives. Today, it is a living time capsule of their…
