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 the sea plays a crucial role in both the music and the action. The opera’s appeal goes much further, though: it confronts us profoundly with the human condition. We all know groups, whether they are a school class, a village or a neighbourhood, that refuse to accept anyone who deviates from the norm in any way. This opera is a superb, enthralling account of how the dangerous mechanisms of a lack of empathy, mob mentality, incitement and exclusion can get out of hand.”

Conductor Lorenzo Viotti leads his first “Peter Grimes” with tenor Issachah Savage in the title role making his role debut and house debut with the Dutch National Opera. The cast will also include soprano Johanni van Oostrum as Ellen Orford,a ctor Leigh Melrose as Balstrode, and Helena Rasker returns as the Auntie.

The opera will be performed between Ocr. 6 and 22 for a total of six performances.