Aldeburgh Festival 2023: Friday 9 – Sunday 25 June
Aldeburgh
2020 Celebration of Aldeburgh Festivals with BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four – 12-28 June
A Celebration of Aldeburgh Festivals – 12 – 28 June
Highlights include:
- ‘Opening Night’ broadcast of Britten on Camera on BBC Four followed by Struan Leslie’s Illuminations – a staging including circus performers of Britten’s Les Illuminations – seen for the first time on Britten Pears Arts’ YouTube Channel
- Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach will be available on BBC iPlayer later this month
- Create your own Aldeburgh Musicircus experience online
- BBC Radio 3 to broadcast six archive performances from Aldeburgh Festival between 19 – 26 June
- Aldeburgh Festival invites audiences to share their memories from its 72 festivals
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s CBSO make Petrushka ‘Snap and Fizz’
United Kingdom Aldeburgh Festival [2] – Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky: Trio Isimsiz (Michael Petrov, cello; Erdem Misirlioglu, piano; Pablo Hernan Benedi, violin); City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Aldeburgh Music Festival, 18.6.2017. (CF)
Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – A Concert Hall Celebration
United Kingdom Aldeburgh Festival 2017 [1} – Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Soloists, Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra / Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor), The Concert Hall, Snape Maltings, Suffolk 12.6.2017. (MH)
Tynan Shines Brightest in Britten’s Illuminations
United Kingdom Britten, Debussy, Adams: Sarah Tynan (soprano). Aurora Orchestra /Nicholas Collon (conductor), Aldeburgh Festival 2016, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk 10.6.2016. (MH)
Jubilee Opera Marks Bicentenary of Battle of Waterloo
United Kingdom Nicol and Stoll, The Drummer Boy of Waterloo: Jubilee Opera, Jubilee Opera Orchestra / Lee Reynolds (conductor), Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, 7.11.2015 (MH)
© David Hermon
Knussen Conducts Music Inspired by the Orient at Aldeburgh
United Kingdom Colin McPhee, Gunter Schuller & Britten: Britten–Pears Orchestra / Oliver Knussen (conductor) Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh, 28.6.2015 (CS)