LONDON (Reuters) - Benjamin Britten's searing opera "Peter Grimes" about a sadistic fisherman will be performed in June 2013 on the beach in the English coastal town that inspired it as part of a year ...

Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” now one of my favorite operas, had to grow on me. The first time I heard the full score I didn’t like it much. I knew the Sea Interludes, the orchestral music played between ...

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If you’ve noticed a lot of Benjamin Britten in your musical diet this year, there’s a good reason. Britten, the most important British composer since Henry Purcell, was born 100 years ago, on Nov. 22, ...

Britten had first heard Douglas sing when the tenor took over the title role of Peter Grimes at about three hours’ notice for the opening night of the 1968 Edinburgh Festival, despite having only ...

IN June 1945 – the war in Eu rope just ended – London and I saw the world premiere of Benjamin Britten’s opera, “Peter Grimes.” Peter Pears, Britten’s companion, sang Grimes; company director Joan ...

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 ...

Opera is theater. Sometimes that seems to be forgotten. When a Eugene O'Neill play is revived, it's welcomed as a classic. When an opera by Benjamin Britten from the same period is revived, people ...

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