Benjamin Britten and His Festival

Genre: Documentary Music
Run time: 53 min
Premiere: 1967. November 22.

Director: Tony Palmer
Starring: Patrick Allen Benjamin Britten Julian Bream Margaret Price

A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert hall at Snape.

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Patrick Allen

Self - Narrator (voice)

Benjamin Britten

Self

Julian Bream

Self

Margaret Price

Self

Peter Pears

Self

Heather Harper

Self

John Culshaw

Self

Imogen Holst

Self

Sviatoslav Richter

Self

Camera

John Else

Director of Photography

Ken Westbury

Director of Photography

Directing

Tony Palmer

Director

Editing

Tony Palmer

Editor

Graham Bunn

Supervising Editor

Production

Nathan Kroll

Associate Producer

Henry Jaffe

Associate Producer

Humphrey Burton

Executive Producer

Sound

Alan Dykes

Sound Mixer

George Cassedy

Sound Recordist