Tony Britten

Tony Britten is a British musical director, composer and film maker, also known for adapting the music and writing the text of the UEFA Champions League Anthem. Education and early career Britten was educated at Trinity School, Croydon where he sang in the Trinity Boys Choir, and took operatic roles in professional productions as a treble. Among these were Yniold in Pelléas et Mélisande conducted by Pierre Boulez at the Royal Opera House in 1969. When his voice broke he began to compose, winning a bursary from the Society for the Promotion of New Music to study electronic music with George Newson at Goldsmiths’ College. He went on to study singing, piano and conducting at the Royal College of Music. Musicals and opera Britten spent the first few years of his career in theatre as a musical director, including working for Cameron Mackintosh as music supervisor on many shows including Godspell, The Rocky Horror Show and Oliver!. After that he worked at the National Theatre, where he was orchestrator and musical director of the National’s Guys and Dolls production in 1982, directed by Richard Eyre. In the 1990s Britten and his Music Theatre London company put on a series of adaptations