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Act 3, scene 2 of Peter Grimes, with Peter Pears in the title role. This 1969 BBC film version of the opera also features Heather Harper as Ellen Orford and ...
Peter Grimes, Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Montagu Slater based on the section "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's long narrative poem The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a fictional small town that bears some resemblance to Crabbe's – and later Britten's – home of Aldeburgh , Suffolk , on ...
Britten’s first large-scale opera tells the story of Suffolk fisherman Peter Grimes, who lives in the small fishing village of The Borough. Grimes is a complex character, both sympathetic and brutish, and often scapegoated by the gossipy, hypocritical residents of the village.
17 mar 2021 · BBC telecast from 1969 of Britten's opera. Staged by Joan Cross, the original Ellen Orford in the 1945 world premiere.Peter Grimes - Peter PearsEllen Orford ...
The coroner Swallow conducts an inquest into the death at sea of a boy apprenticed to fisherman Peter Grimes. As the music makes crystal clear, there is an unbridgeable gulf between the jaunty, self-important and intolerant demeanour of the assembled Borough citizens, led by Swallow, and the gauche yet distinctly volatile Grimes.
24 lis 2018 · Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1 - "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" · Peter Pears · Marion Studholme · Iris Kells · Raymond Nilsson ·...
Compilation, Remastered. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2001 CD release of "Peter Grimes" on Discogs.
