Instrumentation

timp - perc(2): t.bell/cyms/tam-t/TD/BD/susp.cym - harpsichord - strings

Availability

Full score 0-571-51099-X and vocal score 0-571-50521-X on sale, parts for hire

Reviews

". . .has an extraordinary bleakness, like cold stone in winter sunlight. The instruments, mainly strings and percussion, are systematically drained of color, yet the final moments offer some of the most delicate orchestration ever written." Bernard Holland, The New York Times, 19 February 1994

Phaedra (Voice(s)/Piano Reduction)

Benjamin Britten

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Phaedra (Voice(s)/Orchestra)

Benjamin Britten

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Phaedra (Voice(s)/Piano Reduction)

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Benjamin Britten, Robert Lowe

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Phaedra

St John the Baptist Church (Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom)

Richard Hetherington/Christine Rice

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Phaedra

possibility of more dates

Stoller Hall, Chetham's School of Music (Manchester, United Kingdom)

Karen Cargill/Manchester Camerata/Simone Menezes

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John Eliot Gardiner conducts Philharmonia Orchestra in stream of Britten’s Phaedra

Britten's dramatic cantata in a performance from Royal Festival Hall, London with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote.

Faber Music at the 2015 Aldeburgh Festival

Featuring no fewer than six Faber composers, this summer’s Aldeburgh Festival looks set to be particuarly vibrant and stimulating. George Benjamin will be Artist-in-Residence, appearing as conductor, pianist and curator in what will be the largest UK retrospective of his work since the Southbank Centre’s ‘Jubilation’ festival in 2012.

Britten 100: ‘Phaedra’ choreographed for first time

Britten 100: ‘Phaedra’ choreographed for first time

'Phaedra' reviews

'...a work of overwhelming force and certainty, perhaps even his most brilliant achievement since Curlew River.' Stephen Walsh, The Observer, 20 June 1976
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