But Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes hasn’t been done by the Dallas Opera in 42 years. Austin Lyric Opera did the Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 2006, but it’s never been programmed ...

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 ...

Welsh National Opera, led by Tomáš Hanus, present this gripping production of Britten’s pivotal operatic masterpiece at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Starring Nicky Spence.

The most terrifying moment I know in Western music is the gathering of the mob in the third act of Benjamin Britten’s 1945 opera, “Peter Grimes,” set to open at the Metropolitan Opera on Oct ...

In it the novelist muses on how he might himself have effected the transposition from poem to operatic stage: "It amuses me to think what an opera on Peter Grimes would have been like if I had ...

Enthusiasm there was in plenty: stamping and yelling, cheering and clapping from a packed house of opera-lovers young and old who plainly ... even the new apprentice hits out at Grimes: even Ellen, ...

At heart Peter Grimes is an ensemble opera, and here the momentum under conductor Tomáš Hanus took a while to get going in act one. But the singing of the augmented WNO chorus in act three was ...

they were joined by the full orchestra and stage crew in a powerful demonstration of unity against the ongoing savage cuts to its funding that threaten to destroy this great company Nicky Spence in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Peter Grimes’s dead apprentices float like watery ghosts over the stage. Benjamin Britten’s ambivalent ...

Here are the best operas to look out for in 2025. Benjamin Britten's iconic opera follows a tormented fisherman, Peter Grimes, who finds himself ostracised by his community following the ...

Peter Grimes has long been associated with the ENO; the opera received its original premiere by the ENO (then Sadler’s Wells Opera) in 1945. This critically acclaimed staging showcases the ...

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