John Shirley-Quirk

Movies5

• Movie

  Music

  A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?

  Billy Budd

  1966

• Movie9.0

  Documentary

  Tony Palmer's documentary about the staging of Britten's choral work.

  The Burning Fiery Furnace

  1967 · 1 votes

• Movie

  Documentary

  A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.

  Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…

  1979

• Movie3.9

  MusicDrama

  Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there meets a young man by whose beauty he becomes obsessed.

  Death in Venice

  1981 · 4 votes

• Movie

  MusicDrama

  A family conflict ensues after Owen, the youngest of the proud military family Wingrave, expected to continue the family tradition and become a soldier, rejects violence and war and proclaims himself a pacifist.

  Owen Wingrave

  1971