Director Stephen Lawless/Martha Clark

Cast Robert Tear, Alan Opie, Michael Chance .The Glyndebourne Chorus.

Conductor Graeme Jenkins, the London Sinfonietta

Britten’s atmospheric and haunting final opera describes the degeneration of a writer whose pursuit of beauty in the form of a boy leads to humiliation and death.

Running time 138 minutes

Subtitles Deutsch, Français, Español. Format PAL, regions 2,5