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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Benjamin Britten's searing opera "Peter Grimes" about a sadistic fisherman will be performed in June 2013 on the beach in the English coastal town that inspired it as part of a year ...

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 ...

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, ...

Opera is theater. Sometimes that seems to be forgotten. When a Eugene O'Neill play is revived, it's welcomed as a classic. When an opera by Benjamin Britten from the same period is revived, people ...

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, ...

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 ...

Phyllida Lloyd, increasingly in demand as a theatre and film director (Mamma Mia, The Iron Lady), took personal charge of reviving her 1989 production of Peter Grimes. Although notionally set in the ...

Among Britten’s best-known operas, Peter Grimes is the tale of an ostracised outsider turned upon by the community, set against the melodramatic and claustrophobic backdrop of a Suffolk fishing ...

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 ...