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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Clayton was hailed for embodying one of opera's most demanding roles in ...

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.

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 ...

Nicky Spence and Sally Matthews in Welsh National Opera’s Peter Grimes - Donald Cooper Turbulence in the background, then, and plenty of turbulence onstage in Britten’s compellingly relevant drama: as ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

At Covent Garden, Peter Grimes is still the favorite opera in the repertory, but it doesn’t make money because of its huge chorus and 80-piece orchestra. Britten has since shrewdly trimmed his sails, ...