• Britten Pears Arts is a large music education organisation based in Suffolk, England. It aims to continue the legacy of composer Benjamin Britten and...
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    media related to Benjamin Britten. Britten-Pears Foundation Britten 100 (Britten-Pears Foundation's website for the Britten centenary) Aldeburgh Music...
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    Wright CBE (born 15 August 1956) is an English arts administrator. Roger Wright was CEO of Britten Pears Arts until the end of July 2024 when he left the...
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    Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus (category Compositions by Benjamin Britten)
    Week 1. Canticle IV". Britten Pears Arts. Retrieved 29 November 2021. Evans 1979, p. 414. Anderson, David (8 March 2005). "Britten: Canticles I–V, The Heart...
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    Snape Maltings Concert Hall (category Benjamin Britten)
    annual Aldeburgh Festival. It is now one of two headquarters for Britten Pears Arts, with the other being The Red House. The original purpose of the Maltings...
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    The Red House, Aldeburgh (category Benjamin Britten)
    the latter's death in 1986. It is now one of two headquarters for Britten Pears Arts, with the other being Snape Maltings Concert Hall. The origins of...
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    Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac (category Compositions by Benjamin Britten)
    January 1952 by Pears and Ferrier, with Britten as the pianist. It was published by Boosey & Hawkes in 1952, dedicated to the singers. Britten composed his...
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  • The Britten-Pears Orchestra, formerly The Snape Maltings Training Orchestra, is the youth orchestra of the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme at Snape...
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    64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer...
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  • the work can be, and more often is, sung by a tenor: Britten conducted the piece with Peter Pears as soloist within two years of the premiere. The first...
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  • (help)[title missing] Britten Pears Arts - Britten Pears Young Artist Programme Aldeburgh Music - Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme Snape Maltings - Britten-Pears Young...
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    Op. 64, A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera (libretto by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, after William Shakespeare), 1960 Op. 65, Sonata for cello and...
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    of the first Aldeburgh Festival in June 1948, with Peter Pears as the soloist. Benjamin Britten wrote the cantata Saint Nicolas, Op. 42, from December 1947...
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  • Peter Pears and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Schwarz. Britten conducted a recording at Walthamstow Assembly Hall in 1960 with Pears, the...
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  • Comben appointed new Chief Executive Officer of Britten Pears Arts" (PDF) (Press release). Britten Pears Arts. 5 April 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024. McConnell...
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  • Comben appointed new Chief Executive Officer of Britten Pears Arts" (PDF) (Press release). Britten Pears Arts. 5 April 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024. Nastia...
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    Aldeburgh Festival (category Benjamin Britten)
    family. In 1979, Rostropovich conducted the BrittenPears School in a performance of Eugene Onegin (with Pears as guest in the role of M. Triquet, and Eric...
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    Peter Grimes (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    the title role in the opera house, or on record, or both are Britten's partner Peter Pears, who sang the part at the premiere, and Allan Clayton, Ben Heppner...
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    friends of Peter Pears and Britten, respectively. According to the Britten-Pears Foundation's War Requiem website, Dunkerley, one of Britten's closest friends...
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  • The Britten-Pears Foundation acquired a manuscript of one of the realizations in 2019, a version of The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation which Britten wrote...
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    Spring Symphony (category Symphonies by Benjamin Britten)
    Full score. London: Hawkes & Son. ASIN B0000CTOU1. Walker, Lucy. "Work of the Week 12. Spring Symphony". Britten Pears Arts. Retrieved 6 March 2024....
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    Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (category Song cycles by Benjamin Britten)
    Australia. Britten and his partner, Peter Pears, returned to Britain in April 1942 after three years in the United States. A few weeks later Britten was commissioned...
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    with the composer conducting, and as in many other Britten works, his life-partner tenor Peter Pears in a leading role, that of Quint. The original cast...
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    Holden, Amanda (Ed.), Viking Opera Guide ed. Holden (Viking, 1993) Britten-Pears Foundation page on The Prodigal Son Recordings of The Prodigal Son on...
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    Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi (category Compositions by Benjamin Britten)
    Peter Pears and John Shirley-Quirk, with Britten as the pianist. It was published the following year, dedicated to the three singers. Britten composed...
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  • playwright Alice Birch, was commissioned by Music Theatre Wales and Britten Pears Arts. At its premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival, The Telegraph described...
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  • For services to the Economy. Roger Wright, CBE — Chief Executive, Britten Pears Arts. For services to Music. OVERSEAS AND INTERNATIONAL LIST Emeritus Professor...
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    The Rape of Lucretia (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    Lucretia on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk Information from the Britten Pears Foundation Study Guide Archived 11 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine...
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    Curlew River (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    England, by the English Opera Group. The original cast included Britten regulars Peter Pears and Bryan Drake. The United States premiere was presented at...
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    Albert Herring (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    Albert Herring, Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten. Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera...
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