Benjamin Britten

Born: November 22, 1913, in Lowestoft, Suffolk

Died: December 4, 1976, in Aldeburgh

Education: Royal College of Music in London

Operas: Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Albert Herring, Billy Budd, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, Noye's Fludde, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Owen Wingrave, Death in Venice

Compositions: Sinfonietta, Phantasy Quartet, Our Hunting Fathers, Ballad of Heroes, Les Illuminations, Sinfonia da Requiem, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell

Collaborators: poet W. H. Auden and tenor Peter Pears, with whom he entered into the lifelong personal and creative partnership that was to become a major inspiration for his music

Founded: with Pears, the English Opera Group in 1946 and the Aldeburgh Festival

Master Chorale concerts

A Ceremony of Carols
Sunday, December 9, 2007