The Canadian Opera Company’s production of Peter Grimes, which opened on Saturday night, was supposed to feature another stellar performance by Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, who had dazzled ...

PETER GRIMES by Benjamin Britten, directed by Neil Armfield, conducted by Johannes Debus (Canadian Opera Company). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West).

This article was published more than 11 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. Anthony Dean Griffey as Peter Grimes in the Canadian Opera Company production of Peter Grimes. MICHAEL ...

Ben Heppner will not be performing the title role in Peter Grimes when the Canadian Opera Company production opens on Saturday night at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. Suffering ...

Tough opera, Peter Grimes. The story is of child abuse causing death. The composer (Benjamin Britten) and librettist (Montagu Slater) ask us to view the perpetrator as a tragic hero and the ...

A quick look in the archives revealed that music from Peter Grimes was first heard at a VSO concert directed by Jacques Singer in 1949 — just four years after the opera took London by storm and ...

The Canadian Opera Company flew in Anthony Dean Griffey, a noted American tenor, for the dress rehearsal of Peter Grimes on Wednesday night, raising inevitable questions as to whether Ben Heppner ...

The Canadian Opera Company will present its 2013 production of Peter Grimes throughout the month. Tenor Ben Heppner is expected to return for subsequent performances.

Acclaimed Canadian tenor Ben Heppner was back in fine form Tuesday night, returning to the stage to star in Peter Grimes after having withdrawn from the opera's opening night performance in ...

Fisherman Peter Grimes is an outsider, torn between the dream of a conventional life with Ellen Orford, a local schoolteacher, and the truth of his own nature - at times visionary, at others violent.