LONDON (Reuters) - Benjamin Britten's searing opera "Peter Grimes" about a sadistic fisherman will be performed in June 2013 on the beach in the English coastal town that inspired it as part of a year ...

The “Borough” in which Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes takes place, loosely associated with the composer’s gentrified Aldeburgh, has been relocated sixty miles down the East Anglian coast to Jaywick ...

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When Deborah Warner’s gritty production of Benjamin Britten’s post-war opera Peter Grimesopened at the Royal Opera House in 2022, it was praised as a truthful, powerfully updated vision of Britten’s ...

Opera is theater. Sometimes that seems to be forgotten. When a Eugene O'Neill play is revived, it's welcomed as a classic. When an opera by Benjamin Britten from the same period is revived, people ...

It’s always unnerving seeing a revival of a production you have loved. Will the singers be on form? Will that initial impact be reinforced or fade away to a lesser experience? Will new cast members ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The coastal festival, founded by the composer and Peter Pears in the 1940s, has built a reputation for rich, forward-looking programming. Benjamin Britten, whose history is ...