Benjamin Britten was, of course, British by birth and lived most of his adult life at Aldeburgh, near the North Sea. He incorporates the sea into PETER GRIMES, almost to the point here it becomes one ...

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 most terrifying moment I know in Western music is the gathering of the mob in the third act of Benjamin Britten’s 1945 opera, “Peter Grimes,” set to open at the Metropolitan Opera on Oct. 16. More ...

Heard live, the Maltings’ booming acoustic robbed the playing of the Britten-Pears Orchestra of a lot of crucial detail. But the microphones had been judiciously placed: on these discs the detail has ...

As the tormented fisherman, Allan Clayton currently has few rivals. He is matched by a superb cast in this gripping revival of Britten’s opera ‘Who can turn skies back and begin again?” That’s the ...

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 ...

Deborah Warner’s revival of Benjamin Britten’s 'Peter Grimes' at the Royal Opera House has returned to the stage with heightened dramatic intensity under new music director Jakub Hrůša. Critics ...

Melly Still’s new staging of Peter Grimes showcases a standout debut from Nicky Spence, despite occasionally missing the mark Nicky Spence (Photo: Dafydd Owen) Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes is ...