The War Requiem, first performed on 30 May 1962, was commissioned to mark the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original 14th-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.

In commemoration of the 100th year anniversary of World War One, Southbank Centre staged a special performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem featuring hundreds of young performers back in...

War Requiem is a 1989 film adaptation of Benjamin Britten's musical piece of the same name. It was shot in 1988 by the British film director Derek Jarman with the 1963 recording as the soundtrack, produced by Don Boyd and financed by the BBC.

Follow the text of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, compiled from poems by Wilfred Owen and the Latin Mass for the Dead.

Benjamin Britten’s pacifist masterpiece War Requiem, premiered in 1962, is among the greatest settings of a liturgical text, linking past and present by interweaving poems on the horrors of war by WWI poet Wilfred Owen.

War Requiem: Directed by Derek Jarman. With Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes. A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I …

Britten wrote his War Requiem to mark the consecration of Coventry's new cathedral, built among the ruins of the old 14th century cathedral, which was destroyed in the devastating air raids on …

Learn the harrowing story behind Britten's beautiful opera, War Requiem, which is considered an act of reparation for those lost or impacted by wartime Britain.

Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is one of the most powerful statements in music about war and the futility of war. The work was commissioned and first perform...