Benjamin Britten Movies

From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium, conductor Juraj Valčuha presents the Rai premiere in Turin of Jean Sibelius’s Symphonic Poem Op....

After years working in Brazil, middle-aged engineer Martin Boyner returns to Switzerland to marry his longtime friend, the recently widowed Rose...

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

Britten's last opera, in two acts, presented by Teatro Real.

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...

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’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is...

Death in Venice was Britten's final opera--an extraordinarily atmospheric and haunting adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella, evoking the grandeur and...

Liubov Nosova won second prize at the 2024 edition of La Maestra. Here's a look back at her journey through this prestigious competition for female...

Robert Carsen's production of Benjamin Britten's opera for Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.

This is a live performance of BENJAMIN BRITTEN's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" shot at Teatro del Liceu in April of 2005 featuring singers DAVID...

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

Strange creatures roam the woods near Athens at night, and different worlds exist there without ever crossing paths. The Lovers are unaware of the...

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

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...

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

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

With the war in Ukraine, Odessa Classics festival has found a temporary home in the Estonian capital. On the programme are works by Pärt, Mozart...

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...

Louisa Muller makes her Garsington directing debut and we welcome back Richard Farnes (Falstaff, 2018) to conduct with Sophie Bevan (Don Giovanni,...