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  1. SECRETS: The Last Five Days of Sandra

    Leon Clowes is a conceptual artist who compassionately and unflinchingly explores lived trauma. His award winning artworks have been selected for…

  2. Archive Treasures: Sentinels by the Reedbeds

    Today’s Archive Treasure lives not at the Red House but some miles away at Snape; rather than being tucked into an archive box, it is…
  3. portrait of Katy Thompson at Snape Maltings

    Katy Thomson: My Year as a Britten Pears Young Artist

    The Britten Pears Young Artist Programme celebrates 50 years in 2022. This year the format was turned on its head. Here a young artist reflects on the…

  4. Archive Treasures: Reynolds Stone, Britten, Pears and their Bookplate

    Britten and Pears were incorrigible bibliophiles. Like many booklovers, they were eager to declare ownership of their collection, to have a…
  5. A brown record cover saying 'The Music of Bali'

    Archive Treasures: Two Pianos and a Gamelan

    The audio-visual collection in the archive of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears gives us a fascinating overview of the two men’s sound-world, the music…

  6. An official history of the Aldeburgh Festival

    Dr Nicholas Clark, Librarian at The Red House, looks back on the history of the Aldeburgh Festival...

  7. Residency: The Self in Process

    Shruthi Rajasekar and Reylon Yount began their journeys as award-winning practitioners of traditional Chinese and Indian music. They each made a…

  8. Five women who inspired a space opera, and where to find them

    Joanna Harries is a singer and co-producer of INTERSTELLA, an opera project about women in space. In a series of short, interlocking one-woman chamber…

  9. Spring Clean at Britten’s House

    The Red House in Aldeburgh, Suffolk was home to Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears for most of their lives. Today, it is a living time capsule of their…
  10. A black and white photograph of a river next to a road in 1953

    Archive Treasures: Britten, Budd and the Hammer Horror Composer

    It might be difficult to think of a connection between Britten and that great tradition of British cinema, the Hammer Horror film series, however a…

  11. Musicians in Society

    What is the role of a musician in society, beyond the realm of the concert hall? Members of the Britten Pears Young Artist programme, together with the…

  12. Join the Din | Change!

    Participants | Chiara Corradi, Rich Muscat, Ronan Perrett, Tamar Osborn, Sara De Santis, Riccardo Castellani, Emanuela Monni, Charlie Cawood, Jin…