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| The Aldeburgh festival, founded by and synonymous with Benjamin Britten, gets under way on Thursday. Particularly in the composer's centenary year, Britten's music stands at its centre, as it always has. The concert performance of Peter Grimes, for instance, is a curtain raiser to three uniquely atmospheric staged performances on the Suffolk beach where the story of the doomed fisherman is set. But Britten never intended the festival to be parochial or a musical museum, and the Aldeburgh festival long ago shook off the sense that it is the annual gathering of members of a cult. Aldeburgh's previous and current artistic directors, Thomas Adès and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, have renewed the festival's commitment to the contemporary arts – not music alone – and to its international imagination. Aldeburgh remains uniquely and sometimes quirkily itself, but for the next three weeks the Suffolk coast village will be on a world stage. | The Aldeburgh festival, founded by and synonymous with Benjamin Britten, gets under way on Thursday. Particularly in the composer's centenary year, Britten's music stands at its centre, as it always has. The concert performance of Peter Grimes, for instance, is a curtain raiser to three uniquely atmospheric staged performances on the Suffolk beach where the story of the doomed fisherman is set. But Britten never intended the festival to be parochial or a musical museum, and the Aldeburgh festival long ago shook off the sense that it is the annual gathering of members of a cult. Aldeburgh's previous and current artistic directors, Thomas Adès and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, have renewed the festival's commitment to the contemporary arts – not music alone – and to its international imagination. Aldeburgh remains uniquely and sometimes quirkily itself, but for the next three weeks the Suffolk coast village will be on a world stage. |
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