Friday 13 August 2021

Aldeburgh Festival 2022

Aldeburgh Music and Snape Maltings Concert Hall from across the River Alde (Photo Philip Vile)
Aldeburgh Music and Snape Maltings Concert Hall from across the River Alde (Photo Philip Vile)

Britten Pears Arts
is giving itself space to catch up and present some of the work which has gone unperformed over the last 18 months, and so it has just been announced that the 2022 Aldeburgh Festival will be extended by a week and will now take place from 3 to 26 June 2022. 

The festival will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, founded by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears to provide high level performance training for the world’s best emerging professional musicians. The latest cohort joined the programme in July 2021 and their 12 months as  Britten Pears Young Artists will culminate in performances at the 2022 Aldeburgh Festival.

Tom Coult and Alice Birch's first opera Violet was due to be premiered at the 2020 Aldeburgh Festival, and the postponed premiere will now take place at the 2022 festival. Developed at Snape Maltings as part of its Jerwood Opera Writing Programme, Violet is set in an isolated community controlled by the regularity of the town clock. Suddenly the clock begins to skip time and an hour is lost – every day. As the hours disappear, long-held hierarchies evaporate and ordered society falls into disarray. Violet is co-commissioned and co-produced by Music Theatre Wales, Britten Pears Arts for the Aldeburgh Festival and Theater Magdeburg.


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