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 England's east coast.
The work was conceived while Britten was living in the US in the early years of the Second World War and completed when he returned to Britain in 1943. It was first performed at Sadler's Wells in London on 7 June 1945, conducted by Reginald Goodall, and was a critical and popular success. It is still widely performed, both in Britain and internationally, and has become part of the standard repertoire. Among the tenors who have performed the title role in the opera house, or on record, or both are Britten's partner Peter Pears, who sang the part at the premiere, and Allan Clayton, Ben Heppner, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jonas Kaufmann, Philip Langridge, Stuart Skelton, Set Svanholm and Jon Vickers.
Four Sea Interludes, consisting of purely orchestral music from the opera, were published separately and are frequently performed as an orchestral suite. Another interlude, a passacaglia, was published separately and is also often performed, either together with the Sea Interludes or by itself.
three, without knowing what the grime music genre was. Grimes was self-taught in music and visual art. In January 2010, Grimes released her debut album, Geidi...
2013 "In pictures: Britten's PeterGrimes on Aldeburgh beach", BBC, 18 June, accessed 11 June 2016 Clement, Andrew. "Grimes on the Beach", The Guardian...
Borough. He suggested to Britten that the section about the fisherman PeterGrimes would make a good subject for an opera. Britten agreed, and, a Suffolk...
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Richard Strauss is an example of opera within an opera. Benjamin Britten's PeterGrimes contains a wide variety of diegetic music. In musical theatre, as in...
May 1941 at Brander Matthews Hall, New York. Published by Faber Music. PeterGrimes, Op. 33: Opera in a prologue and three acts, 147'. Libretto by Montagu...
commenced the year 2022 with a role debut as the titular role in Britten's PeterGrimes at the Wiener Staatsoper. In March 2022, a studio recording of Turandot...
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preeminence as a Britten and Stravinsky interpreter" with productions of PeterGrimes and The Rake's Progress. Davis conducted more than 30 operas during his...
12 June 2021. p. B16. PeterGrimes review – Compelling, unsettling and ravishingly sung The Guardian Tim Ashley 18-Mar-2022 Grimes, Royal Opera — violence...
2012. "Wiener Staatsoper: Ehrungen auf offener BÜhne im Anschluss an PeterGrimes am 2. Februar 2022" (in German). Vienna State Opera. Retrieved 4 February...
Alte Musik Berlin cond. Justin Doyle 2020 PENTATONE Opera Ned Keene: PeterGrimes Britten City of London Sinfonia cond. Richard Hickox 1995 Chandos CHAN...
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Cross announced her intention to re-open Sadler's Wells theatre with PeterGrimes by Benjamin Britten, with herself and Pears in the leading roles. Many...
time at Tanglewood with the American premiere of Benjamin Britten's PeterGrimes, which was commissioned by Koussevitzky. That same year, Arturo Toscanini...
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