Films with: Britten, Benjamin

Billy Budd an opera /

Dramatizes the moral dilemma of Captain Vere when, in accordance with Admiralty regulations, he must demand the court martial to sentence to death by hanging the innocent seaman who was provoked to strike and kill the villanous master-at-arms.

DVD 2823

Midsummer night's dream Le songe d'une nuit d'été : opéra en trois actes = Ein Sommernachtstraum : Oper in drei Akten /

DVD 5717

Turn of the screw

DVD 5862

War requiem

The horrors of war and the pacifist sentiments expressed in Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the poems of Wilfred Owen are evoked in scenes and vignettes illustrating death and suffering in World War I.

DVD 7484