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Britten - Peter Grimes | EMI - Live from the MET 2174149

Britten - Peter Grimes

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Label: EMI - Live from the MET

Cat No: 2174149

Barcode: 5099921741494

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 15th September 2008

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Contents

Artists

Dean Peterson
John Del Carlo
Anthony Dean Griffey
Felicity Palmer
Patricia Racette
Jill Grove
Greg Fedderly
Anthony Michaels-Moore
Bernard Fitch
Leah Partridge
Erin Morley
Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Logan William Erickson
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Conductor

Donald Runnicles

Works

Britten, Benjamin

Peter Grimes, op.33

Artists

Dean Peterson
John Del Carlo
Anthony Dean Griffey
Felicity Palmer
Patricia Racette
Jill Grove
Greg Fedderly
Anthony Michaels-Moore
Bernard Fitch
Leah Partridge
Erin Morley
Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Logan William Erickson
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Conductor

Donald Runnicles

About

Anthony Dean Griffey and Patricia Racette excel in John Doyle’s new production of Britten’s most celebrated opera, Peter Grimes, filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in Hi-Definition.

Peter Grimes, Britten’s second opera, is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of post-war opera, and its premiere over 60 years ago marked a turning point in the history of British Opera. It is now considered a masterwork of 20th Century opera and it became the first opera by an English composer to enter and remain in the international repertory.

The work is based on a poem by the turn-of-the-19th-century writer George Crabbe entitled The Borough, and is set in an isolated English fishing village in the 1830s. Much of the emotional drive of the opera comes from the six ‘Sea Interludes’ – calm, storm, at dawn and by moonlight. These are among the most brilliantly evocative music that Britten ever wrote and which help to establish the constant, overpowering presence of the sea as the opera’s dominant force.

Anthony Dean Griffey, as Grimes, is ‘superb’ (San Francisco Chronicle). Patricia Racette, as Ellen Orford, the schoolmistress who tries and fails to rescue Grimes from his anger and self-pity is ‘near faultless’ (New York Sun).

Donald Runnicles, music director of the San Francisco Opera, “drew an inspired performance from the Met Orchestra, full of passion and commitment yet free of bombast. Without slackening the dramatic tension, he found ways of drawing out both the music's austere lyricism and its violent extremes.” (Boston Globe)

The tenor Anthony Dean Griffey navigates the straits between utterance and intention with great deftness, making his Peter one of the most textured and subtle characters to dominate the Met’s vast stage in a long time.” – New York Magazine

Patricia Racette, was superb. The voice was vibrant, liquid, and exciting, as usual; and the technique was near faultless, also as usual.” – New York Sun

Under Donald Runnicles' baton, the Met orchestra makes the sun, the sea and the tragedy come alive.” - Variety

Cast:
• Hobson - Dean Peterson
• Swallow - John Del Carlo
• Peter Grimes - Anthony Dean Griffey
• Mrs Sedley - Felicity Palmer
• Ellen Orford - Patricia Racette
• Auntie - Jill Grove
• Bob Boles - Greg Fedderly
• Captain Balstrode - Anthony Michaels-Moore
• Rev. Horace Adams - Bernard Fitch
• Two Nieces - Leah Partridge, Erin Morley
• Ned Keene - Teddy Tahu Rhodes
• Boy - Logan William Erickson

Production: John Doyle | Set designer: Scott Pask
Costume designer: Ann Hould-Ward
Lighting designer: Peter Mumford

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