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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…
Archive Treasures: Britten, Budd and the Hammer Horror Composer
It might be difficult to think of a connection between Britten and that great tradition of British cinema, the Hammer Horror film series, however a…
Musicians in Society
What is the role of a musician in society, beyond the realm of the concert hall? Members of the Britten Pears Young Artist programme, together with the…
Join the Din | Change!
Participants | Chiara Corradi, Rich Muscat, Ronan Perrett, Tamar Osborn, Sara De Santis, Riccardo Castellani, Emanuela Monni, Charlie Cawood, Jin…
Community Ambassadors
The Community Programme Ambassadors are a group of freelance musicians, workshop leaders, presenters and composers who support the strategy and…
Faye MacCalman: Invisible, Real
Participants | Faye MacCalman
Archive Treasures: A new production for a new concert hall
Britten wrote his opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream to celebrate the reopening of Aldeburgh’s Jubilee Hall in June 1960 following building work. Seven…
A Day in the Life of The Red House
On a winter's day, Britten Pears Arts' Executive Director, Sarah Bardwell, pays a visit to Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears' home, and finds it…