Grimes on the Beach, Aldeburgh Beach
Aldeburgh Beach: Celebrations of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth are taking place in 39 countries, such is the widespread appeal of one of our greatest composers. Few will have been as imaginative as this open-air production of his first major opera in the town where he lived for most of his life and where he founded the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, three years after Peter Grimes brought him internation…