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Bungalow which was home to composer Imogen Holst protected with listed status

Holst also worked as an assistant to Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

Evening Standard

“I found the underground a more realistic place – bodies all over the floor, film projections on various surfaces, and a right old racket coming from the stage… altogether rather dreamlike”: Robert Wyatt on his improvised life

Fuelled by jazz, socialism and an absurdist slant on the world around him, the retired Canterbury icon’s instincts served him well during a remarkable career

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Classical music: Fiona Maddocks’s 10 best concerts and operas of 2024

A last-minute stand-in saves the day; an unusual artistic double act dazzles; plus, electrifying Strauss, Finnish firepower and high-flying Britten…

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The week in classical: Opera triple bill: Britten, Weill and Ravel; Hänsel und Gretel; Tosca – review

Two opera studio shows find the next generation of stars in rude health, while the Royal Opera’s latest Tosca revival is the ultimate class act

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Diana Cumming obituary

Other lives: Artist whose strange, expressive paintings were admired by Frank Auerbach and collected by Benjamin Britten

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The week in classical: Trouble in Tahiti + A Quiet Place; The Turn of the Screw; Sinfonia of London/Wilson – review

Total commitment carries Bernstein’s uneven suburban double bill; ignore the added subtext and savour ENO’s musically outstanding Turn of the Screw; and Rachmaninov as you’ve never heard him…

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The Turn of the Screw review – creepy and challenging, ENO’s new Britten staging is an ambiguous triumph

Isabella Bywater’s intelligent and demanding production injects fresh menace into Henry James’s tale of a ghosts and dark histories

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BBC pulls peace advert from Proms programme for Britten’s War Requiem performance

Exclusive: Peace Pledge Union said text explaining Benjamin Britten’s pacifist beliefs has been pulled from Proms programme

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The week in classical: Double Bryn Terfel; Siwan Rhys; Bozzini Quartet; My Beloved Man – review

A highlight of this summer’s country house opera season shows how these tireless and inventive festivals are vital to the UK’s classical music scene.

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Pekka Kuusisto & Norwegian Chamber Orchestra: DSCH; Camerata RCO – review

A top cast and young local chorus share the honours in Netia Jones’s stylish new Britten staging; Finnish live-wire Pekka Kuusisto and friends conjure Shostakovich in the dark. Plus, Bruckner’s 6th for 10 players…

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Songs for Peter Pears album review – wide-ranging and lucid collection

Irish tenor Robin Tritschler presentation of songs written for Benjamin Britten’s professional and personal partner of nearly 40 years is a fine achievement

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Sumidagawa/Curlew River review – Britten’s work reunited with its medieval Japanese inspiration

New staging of Britten’s work, first seen at the Aldeburgh festival 60 years ago, complemented by authentic Noh play

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The week in classical: The Merry Widow; Aldeburgh festival – review

Thomas Allen steals a witty, sparkling new production of Léhar’s masterpiece, and a cosmic world premiere from Judith Weir lives up to her star billing

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‘I’ve always been a glass half full person’: Aldeburgh festival’s outgoing CEO Roger Wright

After 10 years at the helm of Britten Pears Arts, Wright is stepping down. He looks back at his festival highlights, and forwards to classical music’s increasingly uncertain future.

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Britten: Violin Concerto Chamber Works album review – bravura and brilliance as Faust turns to Britten’s violin writing

Violinist Isabelle Faust, violist Boris Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov honour Britten’s exuberant works with vigour and determination

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Rent British musician Imogen Holst’s home via Modernist Estates

Discover Imogen Holst’s home, designed by H.T. Cadbury Brown, in the seaside town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on opera and circus: a populist pairing that scales the heights

Editorial: Featuring awe-inspiring aerial antics, Welsh National Opera’s Death In Venice shows how innovative the art form can still be

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Ben and Imo review – Mark Ravenhill races Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst towards a coronation deadline

Samuel Barnett and Victoria Yeates as the composer and his ‘assistant’ test the limits of collaboration as they work towards the completion of Britten’s 1953 opera Gloriana

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Death in Venice review – Britten’s final opera soars in WNO’s captivating staging

Olivia Fuchs’ new production casts aerialists as the Polish family to stunning effect. Mark Le Brocq is a sympathetic Aschenbach and Leo Hussain conducts with a sure hand

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Cavalleria rusticana/Aleko; Bath BachFest review – passion and penitence

Opera North pairs Mascagni’s masterpiece with teenage Rachmaninov in a potent double bill. Plus, well-tuned extremes from Tenebrae and a blizzard of notes with Mahan Esfahani

The Guardian - UK

Albert Herring review – Opera North’s glorious glimpse of village politics

Britten’s comedy about an unworldly young man’s fall from grace is slickly staged and delightfully played, with every singer making their mark

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Turn of the Screw; Wolf Witch Giant Fairy – review

A formidable cast excels in an ingenious, small-scale production of Britten’s ghostly chamber opera; Red Riding Hood clashes with a warbling witch. Plus, a night in with the other Mendelssohn

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Jephtha; 7 Deaths of Maria Callas; Perfection, of a Kind: Britten vs Auden – review

Handel’s majestic final oratorio holds its own in Oliver Mears’s searching new production; Marina Abramović channels Maria Callas; and a well-told tale of when Britten met Auden

The Guardian - UK

A hotbed of English radicalism? Auden, Britten and the unsung glory of the Group Theatre

When they weren’t having screaming rows, the members of this overlooked 1930s collective changed the course of cultural history. Why isn’t it better known?

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Picture a day like this; Peter Grimes; Carol Williams: Mad Rush – review

Sparkling musical invention pierces the gloom of George Benjamin’s mysterious new chamber opera; Britten’s masterpiece holds its own at ENO; and one woman, 7,866 pipes and resounding fun

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