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MURDER WILL OUT.(Peter Grimes)(Opera Review)
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 ...
- `Peter Grimes': BSO's bet still pays off
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff July 30, 1996 700+ words
PETER GRIMES Opera by Benjamin Britten At: The Tanglewood...he had in mind. Three years later "Peter Grimes" had its triumphant premiere in London...occasion with an exciting revival of "Peter Grimes" in the newly restored Tanglewood Theater...
- Another cast shows other qualities of `Peter Grimes'
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff August 1, 1996 700+ words
PETER GRIMES Opera by Benjamin Britten At: Tanglewood...Tanglewood Tuesday night, each act of "Peter Grimes" began with a sound not scored by the...and Bess," operas standing behind "Peter Grimes," present the chorus as hero, the...
- Peter Grimes.(Opera review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Hofler, Robert March 3, 2008 700+ words
...Running time: 3 HOURS, 15 MIN. Peter Grimes Anthony Dean Griffey Ellen Orford...William Erickson Let's call it "Peter Grimes: The Concert Version." In his...Fortunately for Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes," Doyle leaves the musicians...
- `Peter Grimes' returns to Tanglewood Fifty years later, Britten's opera makes...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff July 28, 1996 700+ words
...Benjamin Britten, and the opera was "Peter Grimes." As the commissioner of the...for advanced musical training. "Peter Grimes" therefore looms large in Tanglewood...ago, has been opened up. And "Peter Grimes" is once again the major event...
- A great Peter Grimes
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Stephen Johnson June 23, 1995 700+ words
...irrelevant. Philip Langridge's Peter Grimes - in the City of London Festival...unbearable. Langridge's final "Peter Grimes" was an empty husk, all possible...whichever way you look at it. But Peter Grimes is not a one-man show, even...
- Peter Grimes
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
Peter Grimes. Opera in a prologue and 3 acts by Britten...death of the apprentice of the fisherman Peter Grimes (ten) a verdict of accidental death is recorded, but Grimes is warned not to take on more boy apprentices...
- Min as translator of Crabbe: a Russian transformation of Peter Grimes...
- Magazine article from: Germano-Slavica Thomas, W.K. Ober, Kenneth H. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...narrative Letters in particular, "Peter Grimes," has proved especially popular...Crabbe's story is about a man, Peter Grimes, who lived in a Suffolk coastal...indeed something fascinating about "Peter Grimes" and about the man it describes...
- Peter Grimes a younger view
- Magazine article from: Musical Opinion Monk, Christopher July 1, 2009 700+ words
...question is at the core of ENO 's new Peter Grimes. Today we use the word 'tragedy...This surely is the central premise of Peter Grimes, a man not bad but one who engineers...Inside the pub, with a storm outside: Peter Grimes at ENO
