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Total trailers found: 76
Peter Grimes Trailer (2021)
07 May 2021
Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the masses and the individual.
Fanny and Alexander Trailer (1982)
17 December 1982
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company.
Le Songe d’une nuit d’été - Opéra de Lille Trailer (2023)
13 May 2023
Strange creatures roam the woods near Athens at night, and different worlds exist there without ever crossing paths.
The Burning Fiery Furnace Trailer (1967)
12 November 1967
Tony Palmer's documentary about the staging of Britten's choral work.
Benjamin Britten - In Rehearsal and Performance with Peter Pears Trailer (1964)
01 June 1964
Benjamin Britten, Nocturne for Tenor, Chamber Opera Orchestra
Advance Democracy! Trailer (1938)
05 February 1938
A housewife galvanises her docker husband to take an interest in more important matters than the football pools.
Britten Death in Venice Trailer (2018)
12 October 2018
Britten's last opera, in two acts, presented by Teatro Real.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - RSO Trailer (2023)
12 May 2023
Two pairs of young lovers, more or less frustrated, flee into the woods to escape conventions and demands and to find their true selves.
Britten: War Requiem Trailer (2024)
07 June 2024
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 in with the history of the work in a special way: Benjamin Britten composed his War Requiem as a work of mourning and remembrance of the war dead and wanted the soloists to be members of the countries that had previously been enemies in the war.
Death in Venice Trailer (2013)
03 March 2013
At the English National Opera, Deborah Warner has been directing Benjamin Britten's final opera, Death in Venice, conducted by Edward Gardner.
Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach Trailer (2013)
01 September 2013
An open-air staging by Aldeburgh Music of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, on the beach that inspired the opera.
Benjamin Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer (2006)
09 January 2006
This is a live performance of BENJAMIN BRITTEN's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" shot at Teatro del Liceu in April of 2005 featuring singers DAVID DANIELS, OFELIA SALA, GORDON GIETZ & WILLIAM DAZELEY.
Peter Grimes - Polish National Opera Trailer (2023)
23 June 2023
Peter Grimes lives from fishing. Raw and recluse, he finds himself at odds with the local community who accuse him of brutality towards his young apprentices and blames him for the death of one of them.
Around the Village Green Trailer (1937)
20 May 1937
Contrasts traditional and modern village life, as changes occur with better transport and as country estates are sold off for housing.
The King's Stamp Trailer (1935)
28 June 1935
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 post.
Britten: Gloriana Trailer (2013)
01 June 2013
Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom the opera is dedicated.
Benjamin Britten: Válečné rekviem Trailer (2023)
11 November 2023
Benjamin Britten's monumental anti-war oratorio from the Vladislav Hall of Prague Castle in memory of war veterans and victims.
Los artistas plásticos de Chile Trailer (1960)
24 September 1960
Visits the workshops of prominent Chilean painters and sculptors, a vision of artistic creation takes shape.
Billy Budd Trailer (1997)
11 March 1997
John Dexter’s brilliant production of Britten’s searing opera stars Dwayne Croft in the title role of the handsome young sailor whose kindness and innocence cause his downfall.
Cable Ship Trailer (1933)
30 June 1933
A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.
Death in Venice Trailer (1981)
11 August 1981
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 obsessed.
Death in Venice Trailer (2008)
31 December 2008
Benjamin Britten's 1973 opera, performed in 2008 at the Liceu Opera in Barcelona, Spain.
Message from Geneva Trailer (1936)
01 January 1936
This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation.
Gloriana Trailer (2018)
01 January 2018
Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer (2019)
10 May 2019
When a fairy king quarrels with his queen over a young changeling, he orders his servant, a mischievous sprite, to play a prank on her with hilarious consequences.
Instruments of the Orchestra Trailer (1946)
02 January 1946
British educational documentary film about the principal instruments in the modern symphony orchestra, illustrated through Benjamin Britten's composition, "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra", for which it was commissioned.
Death in Venice Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
Death in Venice was Britten's final opera--an extraordinarily atmospheric and haunting adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella, evoking the grandeur and shabbiness of a Venice in the grip of disease.
Curlew River Trailer (2024)
17 November 2024
A spellbinding film of Benjamin Britten's hauntingly beautiful chamber opera, Curlew River, made to celebrates its 60th anniversary.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer (1981)
24 August 1981
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
Let's Make an Opera Trailer (1996)
01 October 1996
The story of a little boy named Sam, who is exploited by two evil chimney sweeps to clean narrow chimneys.
Peter and the Wolf Trailer (2017)
12 March 2017
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 Margolyes leads us through an orchestral storytelling extravaganza.
The Turn of the Screw Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
In Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of Henry James' masterwork, a naive governess (Helen Field) arrives at a country manor and soon discovers that it holds a murky secret involving her charges and two ghostly servants who wield a sinister influence on them.
Britten: Nocturne Trailer (2013)
03 December 2013
Tony Palmer directs this documentary exploring the life and work of the celebrated English composer, conductor and pianist.
Love from a Stranger Trailer (1937)
18 April 1937
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery.
War Requiem Trailer (1989)
06 January 1989
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches.
Night Mail Trailer (1938)
13 May 1938
This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow.
Owen Wingrave Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Britten's television opera based on a short story by Henry James.
Coal Face Trailer (1935)
03 June 1935
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
Billy Budd Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville.
The Children Trailer (1990)
18 May 1990
After years working in Brazil, middle-aged engineer Martin Boyner returns to Switzerland to marry his longtime friend, the recently widowed Rose Sellars.
Britten: Peter Grimes Trailer (2008)
15 March 2008
Anthony Dean Griffey creates a haunting portrait of the outcast fisherman who struggles under the burden of presumed guilt.
The Rape of Lucretia Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
With ancient Rome as a backdrop, composer Benjamin Britten's chamber opera chronicles the undoing of the virginal Lucretia at the hands of Tarquinius.
Peter Grimes Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.
Winterreise Trailer (1970)
15 November 1970
A specially staged 1970 BBC television performance of Schubert's Winterreise by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten.
War Requiem Trailer (1964)
04 August 1964
First transmitted in 1964, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is performed at the Royal Albert Hall. The Melos Ensemble is conducted by Benjamin Britten, and the performers include Heather Harper (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Thomas Hemsley (baritone) and Simon Preston (organ and chamber organ).
Gloriana Trailer (2000)
22 April 2000
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 on the Opera North revival of a work now recognised to be one of the composer's great achievements.
Benjamin Britten on Camera Trailer (2013)
16 November 2013
BBC documentary exploring the dynamic relationship that developed between British composer Benjamin Britten and the BBC as they worked together to broadcast modern classical music further and wider.
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music Trailer (1988)
04 February 1988
A feat that fully matches its title, an alphabetical trawl through both the history of British music and Russell's own likes and dislikes, the latter summed up by a scene in which he takes a phone call and listens for a bit before concluding that 'it's either an obscene call or the beginning of Michael Tippett's Fourth Symphony.
People of Britain Trailer (1936)
01 August 1936
Short campaigning documentary putting the case for "peace by reason" rather than through re-arming.
Gloriana Trailer (1984)
01 March 1984
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 and Essex: A Tragic History It was written to mark the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer (2005)
01 January 2005
Robert Carsen's production of Benjamin Britten's opera for Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.
Britten: Death in Venice Trailer (2010)
01 November 2010
A staging of Britten's opera filmed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in June 2008.
Benjamin Britten and His Festival Trailer (1967)
22 November 1967
A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert hall at Snape.
Sixpenny Telegram Trailer (1935)
01 July 1935
Experimental GPO publicity film extolling the virtues of the telegram service.
The Turn of the Screw Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country�
Odessa Classics Tallinn Trailer (2022)
01 January 2022
With the war in Ukraine, Odessa Classics festival has found a temporary home in the Estonian capital.
The Turn of the Screw Trailer (2001)
01 July 2001
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, and that the ghosts mean harm to the children.
Peter Grimes Trailer (2023)
19 June 2023
B. Britten's famous opera, which became a major theatrical event in its production by the National Theater Brno.
The Turn of the Screw Trailer (2020)
19 June 2020
Louisa Muller makes her Garsington directing debut and we welcome back Richard Farnes (Falstaff, 2018) to conduct with Sophie Bevan (Don Giovanni, 2012) as the Governess and British tenor Ed Lyon making his Garsington debut as Quint.
