Page 23 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024
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18 December 2023
LAST ENGLISH FESTIVAL STANDING?
NEWS
Norman Lebrecht
December 18, 2023
Cheltenham has gone. Dartington has been banished.
Aldeburgh tonight announced its most ambitious programme in years.
It includes a rare production of Judith Weir’s opera Blond Eckbert, a new
60th-anniversary staging of Britten’s Curlew River, three major Messiaen
song cycles, 23 world premieres and a recreation of the first ever
Aldeburgh Festival concert from 5 June 1948, in a performance by Britten
Sinfonia (which Arts Council England has tried to kill off).
This will be the last Aldeburgh Festival led by Roger Wright, who is
stepping down after ten vigorous years.
