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Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” directed by Deborah Warner in her Paris Opera debut, reintroduces a 20th-century composer to French audiences. By David Belcher The bitter and bloodthirsty ...

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Benjamin Britten's opera created a theatrical and musical revolution in England's music - an opera which combined great sweeping orchestral writing with brilliant storytelling and searing vocal lines.

Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's book The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a ...

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 ...

Reporting from SAN FRANCISCO — When Peter Grimes “is at his exercise,” boys die. The title character of Benjamin Britten’s first and best-known opera is a social outcast in a claustrophobic fishing ...

Is Peter Grimes victim or villain? Perhaps the truest answer is that he's both. One of the masterworks of 20th-century opera, Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes sustains a certain ambiguity in its tragic ...

If you’ve noticed a lot of Benjamin Britten in your musical diet this year, there’s a good reason. Britten, the most important British composer since Henry Purcell, was born 100 years ago, on Nov. 22, ...