- Prefac to the Second edition
- Life
- Early Work and Training
- Collaboration with W. H. Auden
- American Visit
- In Wartime England
- First Operatic Successes
- Festival Interlude
- Aldeburgh: Living in Crabbe Street
- Aldeburgh: At the Red House
- Personal Postscript
- The Operas
- Appendices include:
- Extract from The Britten Estate Executors’ Press Statement (1967)
- Establishment of the Britten-Pears Library to create integral collection of Britten’s manuscripts and documents
- Establishment of the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies
Topics covered by this book
- Death in Venice (drama) • p268 • Part Two, Chapter 16
- Owen Wingrave (drama) • p257 • Part Two, Chapter 15
- The Prodigal Son (drama) • p248 • Part Two, Chapter 14
- The Burning Fiery Furnace (drama) • p242 • Part Two, Chapter 13
- Curlew River (drama) • p233 • Part Two, Chapter 12
- The Turn of the Screw (drama) • p202 • Part Two, Chapter 9
- Gloriana (drama) • p190 • Part Two, Chapter 8
- Billy Budd (drama) • p174 • Part Two, Chapter 7
- The Little Sweep, op. 45 (drama) • p168 • Part Two, Chapter 6
- The Beggar’s Opera, op. 43 (drama) • p161 • Part Two, Chapter 5
- Albert Herring (drama) • p155 • Part Two, Chapter 4
- The Rape of Lucretia (drama) • p142 • Part Two, Chapter 3
- Paul Bunyan (drama) • p115 • Part Two, Chapter 1
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (drama) • p220 • Part Two, Chapter 11
- Noye’s Fludde (drama) • p214 • Part Two, Chapter 10
- Peter Grimes (drama) • p120 • Part Two, Chapter 2
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