The house is owned by Britten Pears Arts and is available as a holiday rental. It is also open to the public every year for Heritage Open Days. Sir Chris Bryant, heritage minister, said the ...

When Auden departed for America in 1939, Britten and his friend, tenor Peter Pears, followed him a few months later feeling, in his own words, ‘muddled, fed-up and looking for work, longing to be used ...

If Curlew River is the best and most moving of Britten's three church parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace is the most colourful and exotic. It also has humour; and Nebuchadnezzar gave Sir Peter Pears ...

Britten drew many a comparison to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; he enjoyed his most prolific relationship, on both professional/creative and personal/romantic levels, with vocalist Peter Pears ...

Aldeburgh Festival Extra! is set to entertain the community with a variety of events. Britten Pears Arts has announced the 17-day event, which will run from June 13 to June 29. The festival will ...

Countertenor James Bowman on how Britten and Pears worked together James Bowman describes how Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears used to breathe together.

Funding for legacy projects ‘of long-term benefit, national importance and strategic value’ has been announced by The Foyle Foundation. The £18m funding will support 14 projects in total, two of which ...

Read our review of Welsh National Opera's Peter Grimes, starring Nicky Spence in Britten’s first operatic masterpiece, directed by Melly Still ...

He has also been a guest tutor at Guildhall School of Music , Trinity Laban, Goldsmiths, Dartington Summer School and 'Britten Pears' Aldeburgh Young Musicians.