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  1. 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…

  2. 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…
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    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…

  4. 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…

  5. Join the Din | Change!

    Participants | Chiara Corradi, Rich Muscat, Ronan Perrett, Tamar Osborn, Sara De Santis, Riccardo Castellani, Emanuela Monni, Charlie Cawood, Jin…
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    Community Ambassadors

    The Community Programme Ambassadors are a group of freelance musicians, workshop leaders, presenters and composers who support the strategy and…
  7. A person holding a saxophone in one hand and typing with the other

    Faye MacCalman: Invisible, Real

    Participants | Faye MacCalman

  8. 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…

  9. 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…

  10. Katch a Taxi Bus to Snape Maltings

    Katch is your bookable bus service. It’s convenient, cost-effective and fast.

  11. Archive Treasures: Presentation, parking and formal address: the mechanics of a peerage

    The archive at the Red House spans all aspects of Benjamin Britten’s and Peter Pears’ lives: from high art and high society to the most mundane nuts…

  12. A Song at The Red House: 'Tell me the Truth About Love', by Benjamin Britten

    Soprano Elise Caluwaerts performs one of Britten's cabaret songs, with a witty text by WH Auden. Accompanied by Lucy Walker on Britten's Steinway piano…