Benjamin Britten Movies

An irreverent survey of British Music.

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

British educational documentary film about the principal instruments in the modern symphony orchestra, illustrated through Benjamin Britten's...

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...

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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