Deborah Warner’s production of Peter Grimes opened at the Royal Opera House in 2022 to rave reviews. The thrust of these reviews was that Benjamin Britten’s searing, dramatic ...

Benjamin Britten was, of course, British by birth and lived most of his adult life at Aldeburgh, near the North Sea. He incorporates the sea into PETER GRIMES, almost to the point here it becomes one ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

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 century ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicky Spence and Sally Matthews in Welsh National Opera’s Peter Grimes - Donald Cooper Turbulence in the background, then, and ...

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. 16. More ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Allan Clayton as Peter Grimes in Deborah Warner’s Peter Grimes (©2026 Tristram Kenton) The “Borough” in which Benjamin Britten’s ...

Peter Grimes, the opera by Benjamin Britten (1945), is a very orchestral work—even apart from the famous “Sea Interludes.” It must be one of the most orchestral operas in the repertoire. And the ...