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ThinkTank: Exploring Co-production in Music and the Arts
ThinkTanks are facilitated discussions held at Britten Pears Arts’ unique site at Snape Maltings. They bring together a broad range of stakeholders and…
Archive Treasures: The Absent Composer
In our archive we hold a short note, in Britten’s frail hand, sent to Snape Maltings on the first performance of his final opera Death in Venice on…
Archive Treasure - What might have been: Britten, Milligan and Lewis Carroll
The archive at the Red House documents the careers of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in great detail. Making up a fascinating sub-set of the archive…
Young Musicians' Health & Wellbeing
We brought together some great minds to discuss the health and wellbeing of young musicians, in our latest Britten Pears Arts Think Tank. The…
Hold the Drama
Hold the Drama create non-verbal shows that use music and drama to start conversations about mental health and emotional wellbeing...
t l k: compositions about loss and grief
The next phase of development for a new t l k EP
Vox Pop: A Verbatim Musical
A verbatim musical which follows the people of Cardiff in the days before, during, and after the general election in December 2019...
The School Britten & Pears Built
Britten and Pears founded a special kind of Music School. This year it celebrates its 50th year, and an important project is underway…
The Anti-War Art of War Requiem, Sixty Years On
May 2022 marks the sixtieth anniversary of War Requiem, ‘Perhaps the most important work I have yet written’ as Britten described it in his…
10 things you may not know about Benjamin Britten and the Royal Family
1. Benjamin Britten composed four works for the Royal Family, and arranged the National Anthem specially for Queen Elizabeth II (his version is often…
Music in the Criminal Justice System
Britten Pears Arts has an over 20-year relationship with HMP Warren Hill, a male adult prison situated only a 15-minute drive from Snape…
Alice Birch has Written an Opera
Britain's most talked about new writer, Alice Birch, has written the libretto for a brand new opera. We reveal an exclusive extract of the text, and…