Page 24 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024

Press release below:

Britten Pears Arts presents the 75th Aldeburgh Festival in June 2024

• New production of Judith Weir’s opera Blond Eckbert opens the

Aldeburgh Festival

• Featured musicians are composers Judith Weir and Unsuk Chin; violinist

Daniel Pioro and cellist

Alban Gerhardt

• New staging of Britten’s Curlew River 60 years after its first performance

• Gweneth Ann Rand performs three major Messiaen song cycles

• Orchestras include the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish

Symphony Orchestra, The

Hallé, Britten Sinfonia and the Knussen Chamber Orchestra

• Ensembles include BBC Singers, Ensemble Diderot, The Marian Consort,

Nash Ensemble,

Tenebrae and Vox Luminis

• Artists include Christian Blackshaw, Claire Booth, Alice Coote, Julius

Drake, Rolf Hind, Braimah,

Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Matilda Lloyd, Steven Osborne, Andrè

Schuen, Kathryn Stott

and Elizabeth Watts