The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the town of Aldeburgh...

Crabbe (1754–1832) and has organised the annual Aldeburgh Literary Festival since 2002. The name "Aldeburgh" derives from the Old English ald (old) and burh...

to present the first Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts in 1948. Each year Britten Pears Arts promotes the Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts...

the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. In addition to composing music, she wrote composer biographies, much...

librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings...

Venice, director Yoshi Oida. Other projects in Aldeburgh included SNAP – Art at the Aldeburgh Festival, with Abigail Lane, Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling...

critical acclaim for the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival and Aldeburgh Music, respectively. Sophie Irene Hunter was born in Hammersmith...

Messages in November 1999 and it received its UK premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival in June 2000. A recording of the work is available on EMI Classics...

particularly children. First performed on 18 June 1958 at that year's Aldeburgh Festival, it is based on the 15th-century Chester "mystery" or "miracle" play...

Libretto by Eric Crozier. Premiered on 14 June 1949 at Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh Festival. Published by Boosey & Hawkes. Billy Budd, Op. 50: Opera in four acts...