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MURDER WILL OUT.(Peter Grimes)(Opera Review)

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Maybe there is a saving grace in the fact that New York gets to hear "Peter Grimes" so seldom--every five years, on average. Benjamin Britten's beautiful and terrifying masterpiece, the tale of an antisocial East Anglian fisherman whose apprentices have a habit of dying on the job, has not yet lost its capacity to surprise; it clobbers us anew with each revival. "Grimes" ranks high among operas of the past century, not only because the music is so fiendishly good but because the music and the words together propel a debate that never stops raging. You are drawn into the melee from the moment the curtain rises, and leave feeling exhilarated, even though the journey is as ...

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