Benjamin Britten’s letters to his life partner Peter Pears are intimate, honest and revealing – revealing of lives entwined at a time when their love was illegal. Could I, a 21st-century Northern ...

Oliver Knussen gave a persuasive reading of Britten’s only ballet music This year’s Aldeburgh festival ended on a high, with Oliver Knussen conducting the excellent Britten-Pears Orchestra in a rare ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Another month, another Turnage premiere. At a time when some composers seem reluctant to put pen to paper, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The coastal festival, founded by the composer and Peter Pears in the 1940s, has built a reputation for rich, forward-looking programming. Benjamin Britten, whose history is ...

Mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker officially opens the Britten-Pears Archive today. Constructed in the grounds of The Red House in Aldeburgh - which Benjamin Britten shared with Peter Pears from 1957 ...

Arts organisation Britten Pears is planning a major upgrade of its key Snape Maltings site as part of plans to raise standards and make it more welcoming. New chief executive Andrew Comben will ...