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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 leads the team which runs Britten Pears Arts' work with local people. The team aims to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals,…![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…![]()
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…![A black and white photograph of a river next to a road in 1953]()
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…![]()
Making Musicians for 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…
