The fusion of sound and stage action in the very first moment makes it immediately clear that this production is operatic in the best sense. With the houselights still up and before a note of music is ...

The “Borough” in which Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes takes place, loosely associated with the composer’s gentrified Aldeburgh, has been relocated sixty miles down the East Anglian coast to Jaywick ...

Some excellent performances and superb direction combine to create an outstanding production of Benjamin Britten's best known opera ...

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 ...

Peter Grimes repose sur la dualité entre son chœur et Grimes en tant qu'individu. D'un côté, le spectacle de la foule, bouillonnante et enragée dans sa chasse aux sorcières contre Grimes, et de ...

It would have happened like this, I’m sure, even if Melly Still’s new staging of Britten’s masterpiece had been a flop. But of course it was not and is not. To say that there is an air of defiance ...

Phyllida Lloyd‘s production of Peter Grimes in 2006 was widely regarded as definitive and Opera North has wisely built on this success – and the remarkable level of teamwork achieved – by keeping ...

NEW YORK - Studies of troubled psyches and critiques of dysfunctional societies: They're two agreed-upon masterpieces of modern opera. For better and for worse, separated by a decade, each represented ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Allan Clayton as Peter Grimes in Deborah Warner’s Peter Grimes (©2026 Tristram Kenton) The “Borough” in which Benjamin Britten’s ...

Nothing beats opera for dealing with extremes of emotion, and as themes go they don’t come much darker than the child abuse and murder at the centre of Peter Grimes. Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts’ Grimes is, ...