Movies

With the Russian soprano Irina Lungu, the British tenor Allan Clayton and the German baritone Matthias Goerne, a star cast has been found that ties...

A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.

Short campaigning documentary putting the case for "peace by reason" rather than through re-arming.

Children and childhood fascinated Benjamin Britten throughout his life and inspired some of his greatest music. John Bridcut's compelling film sheds...

Sarah Connolly's 'outstanding' (The Guardian) portrayal of the wronged Roman noblewoman, written originally for Kathleen Ferrier, lies at the hear of...

An open-air staging by Aldeburgh Music of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, on the beach that inspired the opera. A small seaside community struggles...

Tony Palmer's documentary about the staging of Britten's choral work.

This 1969 BBC production is about as close as we can get to a definitive version of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES, one of the greatest 20th Century...

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.

Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and...

Experimental GPO publicity film extolling the virtues of the telegram service.

Phyllida Lloyd's acclaimed adaptation for film of the opera that Benjamin Britten wrote for the celebrations of the Queen's coronation in 1953, based...

Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the...

A housewife galvanises her docker husband to take an interest in more important matters than the football pools.