Benjamin Britten on Camera
Overview
BBC documentary exploring the dynamic relationship that developed between British composer Benjamin Britten and the BBC as they worked together to broadcast modern classical music further and wider. Through this collaboration, Britten's music reached television audiences, from elaborately staged studio operas to intimate duets featuring his partner Peter Pears to the massive Proms performance of his War Requiem. The programme features interviews with Britten's collaborators and singers as well as those working behind the scenes including Michael Crawford, David Attenborough, Humphrey Burton and soprano April Cantelo. James Naughtie narrates.
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16/11/2013
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Benjamin Britten
Self (Archive Footage)
Peter Pears
Self (Archive Footage)
Joan Cross
Self (Archive Footage)
Eric Crozier
Self (Archive Footage)
E.M. Forster
Self (Archive Footage)
John Culshaw
Self (Archive Footage)
James Blades
Self (Archive Footage)
Humphrey Burton
Self
April Cantelo
Self
Michael Crawford
Self
Deborah Bull
Self
Maggie Cotton
Self
Peter Maxwell Davies
Self
Oliver Knussen
Self
James Naughtie
Narrator
Original Soundtrack
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Orpheus and Eurydice
Don Carlo
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Pasquale
Il Campanello
The Five Moons of Lorca
Il Trovatore - Verdi
Puccini: Turandot (San Francisco Opera)
La Fille du Régiment - Metropolitan Opera
La traviata in Paris
La Bohème
Tosca
Rossini: Guillaume Tell
Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte
Interrupted Melody
Massenet: Werther
The Tales of Hoffmann
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Tancredi