Organization

Singer

Bass

Barnaby Rea

Hobson

Tenor

Allan Clayton

Peter Grimes

Soprano

Maria Bengtsson

Ellen Orford

Contralto

Catheryn Wyn-Rogers

Auntie

Rocío Pérez

Niece I

Natalia Labourdette

Niece II

Baritone

Christopher Purves

Balstrode

Mezzo-soprano

Rosie Aldridge

Mrs (Nabob) Sedley

Clive Bayley

Swallow

Jacques Imbrailo

Ned Keene

John Graham-Hall

Bob Boles

James Gilchrist

Rev. Horace Adams

Stage director

Deborah Warner

Conductor

Ivor Bolton

Lighting designer

Peter Mumford

Set designer

Michael Levine

Video designer

Will Duke

Choreographer

Kim Brandstrup

Chorus master

Andrés Máspero

Teatro Real de Madrid

Others

Coro Intermezzo

Orchestra

Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid

English

Madrid

Spain

Teatro Real

Sala Principal

Public

Spanish

Approved

Peter Grimes en directo | My Opera Player | T.20/21

Acto I | Peter Grimes | T.20/21

If there exists a before and after in British opera, then this is measured from the opening of Peter Grimes at Sadler’s Wells in London in June 1945. Greeted as the most important English opera since the time(s) of Henry Purcell, the success of the work was decisive in the evolution of Britten’s operatic talent and consolidating  his as the composer who was to become an undisputed reference point of the 20th century. Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the masses and the individual. The maritime atmosphere, the crudity of people’s lives and passions, and the complex, impenetrable personality of the protagonist come together in a tragedy which ferments and explodes in the din of silence and hearsay. A tragedy which is immediately forgotten gives way to the self-righteousness of everyday lives and the movement of the sea itself. After the recent success of Billy Budd, opera and theatre director Deborah Warner returns to the Teatro Real to premiere this coproduction between the Royal Opera House Covent Garden of London, the Opéra National de Paris (or the Paris Opera) and the Teatro dell'Opera of Rome.

Peter Grimes by Britten, From (2021/2021), Directed by Deborah Warner,, Conductor Ivor Bolton, Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain

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