[ON THIS DAY] 🐟🎶 On this day in 1945, Britten's Peter Grimes premiered at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre! A tragic opera about a fisherman who struggles against prejudice and loneliness in a small English coastal community. Watch "Oh Hang at opens door" sung by the Chorus of Opera North! 🐟🎶 https://t.ly/XiD1 | medici.tv

We all have secrets... Uncover them with Strauss, Puccini & Britten this autumn… | Opera North

On this day in 1913 Benjamin Britten was born!🎂 We're celebrating with one of his most iconic works The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Britten let his imagination catch fire with this piece and we actually recorded the piece with him in 1963! Here we are with Sir Simon Rattle back in 2021. What's your favourite Britten composition?🎶 | London Symphony Orchestra

Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears Recital - Riverside Studios 1964 First transmitted in 1964, this is an informal concert of traditional English songs given to an audience of friends at the Riverside Studios, London, by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. | Legendary Musicians

Today marks 34 years since the death of Sir Peter Pears. Here he is, with his partner Benjamin Britten at the piano, singing Britten's arrangement of the ballad 'Sweet Polly Oliver': https://DeccaClassics.lnk.to/PearsBrittenFolksongsFP | Decca Classics