Third Hand's innovative use of puppets within opera pays off in this gloriously dramatic and visually exciting adventure, inspired by and set within the mythology of Shetland.
Bringing Peter Grimes to Grange Park a year after the Britten centenary is an enormous challenge. With ‘Grimes on the Beach’ still fresh in the memory, the task of recreating the Suffolk coast in Hampshire’s idyllic countryside might have seemed a step too far.