ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL: multiple events each day
Please visit https://snapemaltings.co.uk/season/aldeburgh-festival/ to explore the full Aldeburgh Festival lineup for 2018.
To See the Invisible, Emily Howard
‘And then they found me guilty, and then they pronounced me invisible, for a span of one year’ Robert Silverberg, To See the Invisible Man Condemned for a ‘crime of coldness’…
To See the Invisible, Emily Howard
‘And then they found me guilty, and then they pronounced me invisible, for a span of one year’ Robert Silverberg, To See the Invisible Man Condemned for a ‘crime of coldness’…
Myth illustrated with music: Purcell’s King Arthur at the Aldeburgh Festival
English semi-opera is a strange beast: a story broken up and illustrated by music. Once you settle into it, the shuttling rhythm between music and story is surprisingly and undeniably…
Boy Donne good: Toby Spence in Tippett and Britten III, Aldeburgh Festival
Although his words could have been crisper, all the songs came across with a pleasing sense of flow, Spence’s light lyric tenor happily expanding to the rafters at Snape, when…
Music more than words: Britten and Tippett at the Aldeburgh Festival
Although I had undoubtedly come to Snape that evening solely in order to hear Ian Bostridge sing Britten and Tippett, I left feeling the most astonished, and exhilarated, by Britten’s…
Starting as you mean to go on: Britten’s Les Illuminations at Aldeburgh Festival
Director Struan Leslie’s reimagining of Britten’s Les Illuminations song cycle opened the Aldeburgh Festival with an exciting array of circus performers, creating a dreamy evening without plot, but heady with potent mood,…