Benjamin Britten Movies

Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom the...

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

Benjamin Britten, Nocturne for Tenor, Chamber Opera Orchestra

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...

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 short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.

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

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

This TV production is from 1970 and the color picture is accordingly rich and beautiful. The sound however is below average for the era, but still...

First transmitted in 1964, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is performed at the Royal Albert Hall. The Melos Ensemble is conducted by Benjamin Britten,...

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

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...

Experimental GPO publicity film extolling the virtues of the telegram service.

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

Two pairs of young lovers, more or less frustrated, flee into the woods to escape conventions and demands and to find their true selves. But the...

Recording by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation of Benjamin Britten's one-act opera, conducted by Nicholas Goldschmidt.