Peter Grimes

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Leeds Grand Theatre Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS1 6NZ, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)

Performers

Opera North
Jac van Steen	Conductor		2013 Sep 14, 21 mat, 27, Oct 10, 16
Phyllida Lloyd	Director
Anthony Ward	Set Designer
Martin Pickard	Conductor		2013 Oct 26
Giselle Allen	Soprano	Ellen Orford
Jennifer France	Soprano	First Niece
Aoife O'Sullivan	Soprano	Second Niece
Rebecca de Pont Davies	Mezzo-soprano	Mrs Sedley
Yvonne Howard	Mezzo-soprano	Auntie
Mark Le Brocq	Tenor	Bob Boles
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts	Tenor	Peter Grimes
Iain Paton	Tenor	Rev Horace Adams
Robert Hayward	Baritone	Captain Balstrode
Stephen Richardson	Bass	Hobson	2013 Sep 14, 21 mat, 27, Oct 10, 16
Benedict Nelson	Baritone	Ned Keene
Paul Hudson	Bass	Hobson	2013 Oct 26

Revival of 2006 production
‘The operatic event of the year’ The Sunday Times.

Set in a small fishing community on the English coast, this astounding opera is an utterly absorbing, emotionally compelling experience, not to be missed. Britten’s atmospheric music takes powerful inspiration from the sea, vividly portraying the human drama unfolding around the outsider Peter Grimes.

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Opera North's triumphant Peter Grimes returns to Leeds

Richard Wilcocks, 16th September

A very welcome and triumphant revival of Peter Grimes begins Opera North’s Festival of Britten season, soon to be followed by A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Death in Venice. The work has often been described as Britten’s greatest, the paeans of praise beginning soon after its first performance just after the Second World War, often involving the word “enigma”.

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