Benjamin Britten Movies

At the English National Opera, Deborah Warner has been directing Benjamin Britten's final opera, Death in Venice, conducted by Edward Gardner.

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

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...

Anthony Dean Griffey creates a haunting portrait of the outcast fisherman who struggles under the burden of presumed guilt. This chilling production...

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...

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

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

Short campaigning documentary putting the case for "peace by reason" rather than through re-arming.

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

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...

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 new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted,...

Tony Palmer's documentary about the staging of Britten's choral work.

A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert hall at Snape.

An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is a young sailor...

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...

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...

Benjamin Britten's 1973 opera, performed in 2008 at the Liceu Opera in Barcelona, Spain.

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

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there meets a young man by whose beauty he becomes...