An innovative series of concerts in different Aldeburgh locations
Easily the best thing at Aldeburgh this week.
Power and verve from the BBC Philharmonic and Simone Lamsma
In conversation with composer Sarah Angliss.
Tom Coult and Alice Birch’s ‘Violet’ opened the 2022 Aldeburgh Festival. The new opera is gripping, bleak, and thought-provoking.
41 premieres, a celebration of the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme at 50, plus Benedetti, Simpson, Clare Hammond & Víkingur Ólafsson.
If memory serves me correctly, 2020 is the first time the 72-year-old Aldeburgh Festival won’t be going ahead. No surprises why. COVID. This is notable because of the oft-told story of Benjamin Britten’s annual jamboree. Fire at Snape Maltings Concert Hall back in 1967 on the eve of that year’s festival might have threatened proceedings.…