• Thumbnail for Aldeburgh Festival
    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...
    13 KB (1,569 words) - 05:41, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 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...
    41 KB (4,169 words) - 20:56, 1 July 2024
  • 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...
    40 KB (4,554 words) - 22:10, 28 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Imogen Holst
    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...
    61 KB (7,973 words) - 12:33, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sophie Hunter
    critical acclaim for the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival and Aldeburgh Music, respectively. Sophie Irene Hunter was born in Hammersmith...
    30 KB (2,015 words) - 14:31, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benjamin Britten
    librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings...
    131 KB (16,363 words) - 08:48, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Adès
    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...
    31 KB (3,255 words) - 14:27, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of compositions by Benjamin Britten
    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...
    28 KB (3,639 words) - 14:13, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Noye's Fludde
    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...
    62 KB (7,568 words) - 00:19, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Pears
    Peter Pears (category People from Aldeburgh)
    the Aldeburgh Festival in 1947 and the Britten-Pears School in 1972. After Britten died in 1976, Pears remained an active participant in the festival and...
    29 KB (3,691 words) - 08:09, 21 May 2024