Love letters between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears go on display

Ardent and joyful love between composer and tenor is revealed in exhibition marking 50th anniversary of Sexual Offences Act Extracts from letters between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears have gone on display at the Red House in Aldeburgh, the Suffolk home which Britten, one of Britain’s greatest composers, shared with the tenor.Although Britten and Pears look and sound like two upper class boarding school teachers in their tweeds and tank tops, the letters reveal a different picture.Contin