Benjamin Britten Movies

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...

A family conflict ensues after Owen, the youngest of the proud military family Wingrave, expected to continue the family tradition and become a...

A staging of Britten's opera filmed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in June 2008.

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

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

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...

Britten's last opera, in two acts, presented by Teatro Real.

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

An open-air staging by Aldeburgh Music of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, on the beach that inspired the opera. A small seaside community struggles...

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...

Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the...

At the English National Opera, Deborah Warner has been directing Benjamin Britten's final opera, Death in Venice, conducted by Edward Gardner.

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.

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...

This 1969 BBC production is about as close as we can get to a definitive version of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES, one of the greatest 20th Century...

Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is...

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...