Premiere of Noye's Fludde

Date: June 18, 1958 • Location: Saxmundham, United Kingdom

English composer Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde was premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival.

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).