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 ...

Marcus Farnsworth and Susanna Hurrell in A Visit to Friends at Aldeburgh Festival Opera - Richard Hubert Smith ...

Farewell waltz: Lotte Betts-Dean and Marcus Farnsworth in 'A Visit to Friends'Richard Hubert Smith If this staging felt at times too elaborate and intrusive for the limited, repetitive action it ...

Colchester design agency Silk Pearce has designed the programme brochure for the 64th Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts. It is the 12th year running Silk Pearce has designed the brochure. The ...

New artistic director Pierre-Laurent Aimard has announced his first season at the Aldeburgh Festival, which will include a number of stage works by Harrison Birtwistle. Birtwistle has collaborated ...

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