On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
£14.99 ($30) for the new recording of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes conducted by the delight of the classical music industry is a fantastic bargain. But £14.99 ($30) for the same musician's acclaimed accounts of Peter Grimes and Verdi's Falstaff on 5 CDs ? As the credit crunches that really is a sign of the Grimes . More a cava moment than a champagne moment ? Any copyrighted material on these pages...
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
This week's edition of SundayArts - the new, weekly series on New York's public television station Thirteen (WNET) - will focus on opera's ultimate outsider: Benjamin Britten's brutal, haunted hero, Peter Grimes.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 18/03/2008
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Far more satisfying to hear than watch, the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Benjamin Britten's modern classic "Peter Grimes" demonstrates that director John Doyle's minimalist style is ill-suited for the massive Met stage.
Leonard Link (Free subscription) | 16/03/2008
I scored a double-header for the Ides of March - a matinee at the Metropolitan Opera (Britten's Peter Grimes) followed by an evening at the New York Philharmonic. Both, happily, provided truly excellent performances to savor. Before the Met, a...
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise (Free subscription) | 14/03/2008
The Met's Live in HD broadcast of Peter Grimes on Saturday afternoon will have a segment live from the Aldeburgh Cinema, together with a BBC feature about Britten's life in the town.
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Few operas are as rooted in one place as Benjamin Britten's “Peter Grimes,” which has rumbled back to the Metropolitan Opera, in a new production by John Doyle. The title character, a dark-souled fisherman who goes mad after his apprentices die, was the invention of the poet George Crabbe . . .
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Metropolitan Opera: Britten's "Peter Grimes" will be broadcast live in high-definition video nationwide. 10:30 a.m. March 15. Repeats noon March 16. Performances in New York continue through March 24. Tickets: $15-$295. Call (212) 362- 6000 or go to...
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
BY JAY NORDLINGER [NY Sun, 3 March 2008] Many people regard "Peter Grimes" as Benjamin Britten's masterpiece, and it is, indeed, a powerful opera. The Met revived it on Thursday night, in a new production by John Doyle. The production is not particularly fancy or sophisticated. It does not go in for many effects. And it is a successful production.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
There were high expectations on Thursday night when the Met presented a new staging by the noted director John Doyle, in his company debut.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
I doubt that there has ever been a performance of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes that has not found some sort of disturbing echo in the news of the day. But that didn't make it any more comfortable this week to watch Opera North's touring production of this demanding exploration of child abuse in a small and tight community.
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
The Metropolitan Opera debuted a new staging of Benjamin Britten's tragic work Peter Grimes Feb. 28.
Sounds & Fury (Free subscription) | 24/02/2008
We wish, just for the record, to go on record as seconding Alex Ross's recommendation and linking of this piece on Britten's Peter Grimes by...
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise (Free subscription) | 24/02/2008
Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, one of the most psychologically potent operas in the repertory, opens at the Met on Feb. 28, in a new production by John Doyle. The Met blog is supplying various perspectives on the piece; this post,...
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 22/02/2008
Friends and colleagues recall the composer of Peter Grimes , an unlikely operatic hero of the 20th century. The Met's new staging of Grimes begins performances February 28.
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 17/02/2008
In Peter Grimes and Otello , both of which are being presented by the Met during the months of February and March, mistrust brings about the downfall of two unlikely heroes. And while Britten's title character may or may not have done wrong, the society that persecutes him is equally to blame.
