Benjamin Britten Movies

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father...

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

Gloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth...

BBC documentary exploring the dynamic relationship that developed between British composer Benjamin Britten and the BBC as they worked together to...

With ancient Rome as a backdrop, composer Benjamin Britten's chamber opera chronicles the undoing of the virginal Lucretia at the hands of...

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

Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming...

In Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of Henry James' masterwork, a naive governess (Helen Field) arrives at a country manor and soon discovers...

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...

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

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

During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying...

Bar Avni is the third major winner of the La Maestra conducting competition. Relive the highlights that convinced the jury in the 2024 edition.

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

The story of a little boy named Sam, who is exploited by two evil chimney sweeps to clean narrow chimneys.

To mark the 140th anniversary of the organ at Riga Cathedral, Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna and the Latvian Choir are presenting a concert combining...

Gorgeous tunes and orchestral thrills for the young and young at heart: with a twinkle in her eye, the warm, whimsical and occasionally wicked Miriam...

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.

A spellbinding film of Benjamin Britten's hauntingly beautiful chamber opera, Curlew River, made to celebrates its 60th anniversary. The standout...