Aldeburgh Festival
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The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk and is centred on Snape Maltings
Snape Maltings concert hall
The interior of the Concert Hall
Peter Pears
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Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears was an English tenor. His career was closely associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his professional and romantic partner for nearly forty years.
Aldeburgh Festival
…town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk and is centred on Snape Maltings Concert Hall. The Festival was founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten, the singer Peter Pears and the librettist/producer Eric Crozier. Their work with the English Opera Group (which they had founded with designer John Piper in 1947) frequently…
Britten in 1965
Pears's grave in St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh, Suffolk