Royal Ballet & Opera 2025-26 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Photo: ©2026 Tristram Kenton) If you have ever visited to the Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh, where Benjamin Britten lived, and which inspired his 1945 opera “Peter Grimes” – based on George Crabbe’s poem “The Borough” – then you will surely remember the remarkable views from the sea front: vast, empty skies, sunlight blazing on the water like a purifying {…}

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Issachah Savage Lead Dutch National Opera’s ‘Peter Grimes’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to present Britten’s “Peter Grimes.” The production by stage director Barbora Horáková will highlight the tension between the loner and the village community. This will mark the latest collaboration between Lorenzo Viotti and Horáková following “Missa in Tempore Belli.” Regarding her new production, Horáková said, “’Peter Grimes’ is set in a small fishing community, and {…}

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Brno National Theater 2023-24 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Photo Brno: Marek Olbryzmek) Britten’s “Peter Grimes” is a director’s dream. Who is Grimes? It is certain he is a loner; an outsider and a social misfit open to fits of temper. Yet there is also a sensitive side to his nature that comes out intermittently throughout the opera, notably in his aria “Now the Great Bear and the Pleiades” {…}

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English National Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Peter Grimes’

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The English National Opera has announced a cast change for its performance of “Peter Grimes” on Oct. 6, 2023. The company said, “Unfortunately, Gwyn Hughes Jones has not yet fully recovered and is unable to perform in ‘Peter Grimes’ tonight. Therefore the role of Peter Grimes will be performed by John Findon and the role of Bob Boles by Adam {…}

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English National Opera 2023-24 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Photo: ENO’s Peter Grimes 2023 © Tom Bowles) David Alden’s “Peter Grimes” begins with the curtain up. Upstage the people of the Borough mill about restlessly, occasionally breaking into shouts of anger and impatience. Alden’s 2009 production, on its second revival, breaks with any wistful or bucolic notions about the seaside community of the Borough, who drive the equally unrelenting {…}

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Opéra National de Paris 2022-23 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Photo : Vincent PONTET) This review is for the Jan 29, 2023 performance. It seems that the last century is far enough from us that “Peter Grimes” can be performed enthusiastically as “Tosca” and “La Forza del Destino.” And this Paris Opera new production is to die for! First things first: “Peter Grimes” is an opera that has aged better {…}

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Allan Clayton to Headline Opéra National de Paris’ ‘Peter Grimes’

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The Opéra National de Paris is set to showcase “Peter Grimes,” opening on January 26, 2023. The opera is directed by Deborah Warner, whose production premiered at the Teatro Real de Madrid in 2021. Conductor Alexander Soddy, who worked as the music director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim between 2016-22, will make his Paris Opera debut in the pit. Headlining the {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Credit: Richard Termine / Met Opera) (This review is for the performance on Oct. 26, 2022) The last time the Met Opera presented “Peter Grimes” was in 2008. The world has certainly changed quite a bit in that time and somehow, that timeless work’s themes seem all the more relevant than ever before. The opera opens on the trial of {…}

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Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Peter Grimes’

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(Credit: Gillian Riesen) The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for its production of “Peter Grimes” on Oct. 29. The company said that the role of Ellen Orford will be sung by Laura Wilde, making her Metropolitan Opera debut. She will replace Nicole Car. Wilde has performed at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Scottish Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle {…}

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Royal Ballet & Opera 2025-26 Review: Peter Grimes

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Brno National Theater 2023-24 Review: Peter Grimes

English National Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Peter Grimes’

English National Opera 2023-24 Review: Peter Grimes

Opéra National de Paris 2022-23 Review: Peter Grimes

Allan Clayton to Headline Opéra National de Paris’ ‘Peter Grimes’

Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Peter Grimes

Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Peter Grimes’