Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” now one of my favorite operas, had to grow on me. The first time I heard the full score I didn’t like it much. I knew the Sea Interludes, the orchestral music played between ...

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Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's book The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a ...

Sunday afternoon the Metropolitan Opera continued its most unconventional season by following up Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with Britten’s Peter Grimes, a second mid-twentieth century ...

Benjamin Britten's opera created a theatrical and musical revolution in England's music - an opera which combined great sweeping orchestral writing with brilliant storytelling and searing vocal lines.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicky Spence and Sally Matthews in Welsh National Opera’s Peter Grimes - Donald Cooper Turbulence in the background, then, and ...

Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” directed by Deborah Warner in her Paris Opera debut, reintroduces a 20th-century composer to French audiences. By David Belcher The bitter and bloodthirsty ...

Is Peter Grimes victim or villain? Perhaps the truest answer is that he's both. One of the masterworks of 20th-century opera, Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes sustains a certain ambiguity in its tragic ...

Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the most important operas of the 20th century. Set in a small fishing village, Britten's take on the original Crabbe poem paints Grimes as a tortured character ...

Returning for its first Covent Garden revival (directed by François de Carpentries), Willy Decker’s Peter Grimes has lost none of its visual aplomb. Starkly monumental, his sets might feel token were ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...