Benjamin Britten Movies

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

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 production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

Benjamin Britten, Nocturne for Tenor, Chamber Opera Orchestra

Contrasts traditional and modern village life, as changes occur with better transport and as country estates are sold off for housing.

Visits the workshops of prominent Chilean painters and sculptors, a vision of artistic creation takes shape. Finally, the first Plastic Arts Fair in...

In a remote country house, the newly-appointed governess arrives to take charge of the orphaned Flora and Miles. She must fight to protect them from...

A huge success at its first performance in 1728 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera satirized the conventions of Italian opera, using popular tunes to tell...

Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom the...

Two pairs of young lovers, more or less frustrated, flee into the woods to escape conventions and demands and to find their true selves. But the...

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

First transmitted in 1964, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is performed at the Royal Albert Hall. The Melos Ensemble is conducted by Benjamin Britten,...

A big evil one hides in the castle and is not friends with anyone. A cartoon about the importance of communication based on a fairy tale by Oscar...