Britten Peter Grimes

Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Stuart Skelton Peter Grimes
Pamela Armstrong Ellen Orford
Alan Opie Captain Balstrode
Pamela Helen Stephen Auntie
Malin Christensson/Claire Ormshaw Her ‘Nieces’
Michael Colvin Bob Boles
Brindley Sherratt Swallow
Jean Rigby Mrs Sedley
Mark Stone Ned Keene
Brian Galliford Reverend Horace Adams
Jonathan Veira Hobson
London Voices
Daniel Slater director

Some months after emigrating to America, Benjamin Britten began to read George Crabbe’s narrative poem The Borough – the story of an ostracised fisherman on the North Sea coast. An opera on the subject stirred inside Britten, as did the realisation that he had to come home. He did so, and when the resulting opera Peter Grimes was premiered in 1945, it kick-started an operatic renaissance in Britain overnight. Peter Grimes – underpinned by benign and savage pictures of the North Sea – is one of the landmark operas of the 20th century, from whose chilling tale of marginalisation and persecution Britten created his most powerful and dramatic music.

Free pre-concert event | 2.00pm–3.00pm and 4.00pm–5.00pm |
The Clore Ballroom, The Royal Festival Hall
The LPO and Southbank Centre present Britten's moving setting of the Chester Miracle play,Noye's Fludde, conducted by Benjamin Ellin. No ticket required.

Free pre-concert event | 5.30–6.15pm | Royal Festival Hall
Musicians from the Royal College of Music perform Britten’s String Quartet No. 3 and Phantasy.

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Select a link below to listen to selected movements from this concert (Flash Player opens in a new window).

Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 - Prologue: Peter Grimes!
Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 - Act I Scene 1: Interlude II
Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 - Act II Scene 1: Now that the daylight fills the sky
Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 - Act II Scene 2: Go there
Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 - Act III Scene 2: To those who pass the Borough

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