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

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 ...

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, ...

What’s often called “England’s national opera”, Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, ends with a lonely death at sea. And there were probably times when the tenor who will star in the ...

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.

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 ...

June 7, 1945 is an important date in British opera, because that evening Sadler’s Wells Theatre staged the premiere of Peter Grimes, the first opera by 31-year-old composer Benjamin Britten.

Singing Grimes for the first time (not counting the Madrid opening of the production last year, or the one he ambitiously essayed as a Cambridge choral scholar twenty years ago), Allan Clayton is ...

Perturbed originally by the Royal Opera’s advertisement for a boy “aged 5 to 10” for brutalised Apprentice 2, I raised the objection that Grimes needs a “workhouse brat” at least in his early teens to ...

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 ...

Peter Grimes continues at the Royal Opera House until 31 March. Image credit: Yasuko Kageyama To post a comment, you must register and login.