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Mar 17, 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 ...
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Sep 21, 2023 · Listen and follow along with our B&H Study Score Video featuring the official publisher's score of Benjamin Britten's Four Sea Interludes from his opera "Pet...
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Support us on Patreon and get more content: https://www.patreon.com/classicalvault --- Benjamin BrittenFour Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op 33a1 Dawn2 S...
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Daniel Jaffé fishes out the finest recordings of Britten’s deeply unsettling but utterly gripping opera, Peter Grimes.
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 ...
Peter Grimes. The great Jon Vickers sings one of his most acclaimed roles, the tortured fisherman of the title, in Britten’s powerful drama. Hounded by the small-minded local townspeople, with only Ellen Orford (Lucine Amara) and Captain Balstrode (Geraint Evans) on his side, Peter’s slow descent into madness is as searing as it is inevitable.
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Britten’s Peter Grimes “At the dress rehearsal I thought the whole thing would be a disaster,” recalled Benjamin Britten, referring to the world premiere of Peter Grimes . When the final curtain fell on June 7, 1945, at the old Sadler’s Wells theater in London, silence followed by shouting filled the hall.