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Opera North's triumphant Peter Grimes returns to Leeds

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Reviewed at Leeds Grand Theatre, Leeds on 14 September 2013
Britten, Peter Grimes
Jac van Steen, Conductor
Phyllida Lloyd, Director
Anthony Ward, Set Designer
Giselle Allen, Ellen Orford
Jennifer France, First Niece
Aoife O'Sullivan, Second Niece
Rebecca de Pont Davies, Mrs Sedley
Yvonne Howard, Auntie
Mark Le Brocq, Bob Boles
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Peter Grimes
Iain Paton, Rev Horace Adams
Robert Hayward, Captain Balstrode
Stephen Richardson, Hobson
Benedict Nelson, Ned Keene
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