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Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes
- Prologue: "Peter Grimes"
- Prologue: "You sailed you boat round the coast"
- Prologue: "Peter Grimes, I here advise you"
- Prologue: "The truth – the pity – and the truth"
- Interlude I
- I, 1: "Oh, hang at open doors"
- I, 1: "Good morning, good morning!"
- I, 1: "Hi! Give us a hand!"
- I, 1: "I’ll have to go from pub to pub"
- I, 1: "Let her among you without fault"
- I, 1: "Look! The storm cone!"
- I, 1: "And do you prefer the storm"
- I, 1: "They listen to money"
- I, 1: "What harbor shelters peace"
- Interlude II
- I, 2: "Past time to close"
- I, 2: "Loud man"
- I, 2: "There’s been a landslide up the coast"
- I, 2: "Pub conversation should depend"
- I, 2: "Have you heard the cliff is down"
- I, 2: "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"
- I, 2: "For peace sake"
- I, 2: "The bridge is down"
- Interlude III
- II, 1: "Glitter of waves"
- II, 1: "Child you’re not too young"
- II, 1: "This unrelenting work"
- II, 1: "Fool to let it come to this"
- II, 1: "People… No! I will speak!"
- II, 1: "We planned that their lives"
- II, 1: "Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?"
- II, 1: "From the gutter"
- Interlude IV
- II, 2: "Go there"
- II, 2: "They listen to money"
- II, 2: "Now! Now!"
- II, 2: "Peter Grimes"
- Interlude V
- III, 1: "Assign your prettiness to me"
- III, 1: "Mr. Keene"
- III, 1: "Murder most foul it is"
- III, 1: "Come along, Doctor"
- III, 1: "Embroidery in childhood was"
- III, 1: "Mr. Swallow"
- III, 1: "Who holds himself apart"
- Interlude VI
- III, 2: "Grimes!"
- III, 2: "Peter, we’ve come to take you home"
- III, 2: "To those who pass the Borough"

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opera Britten's Peter Grimes Margaret Williams (stage director), Steuart Bedford (conductor) – With Alan Oke (Peter Grimes) and Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford) – Aldeburgh Festival

Margaret Williams (stage director), Steuart Bedford (conductor) – With Alan Oke (Peter Grimes) and Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford) – Aldeburgh Festival

Britten's Peter Grimes Margaret Williams (stage director), Steuart Bedford (conductor) – With Alan Oke (Peter Grimes) and Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford) – Aldeburgh Festival

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Discover "the most talked about event of the summer”: the film Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach, shown in more than 90 cinemas across the UK during Autumn 2013.

Tim Albery | Stage director
Leslie Travers | Set and costume design
Lucy Carter | Lighting

Alan Oke | Peter Grimes
Giselle Allen | Ellen Orford
David Kempster | Captain Balstrode
Gaynor Keeble | Auntie
Robert Murray | Bob Boles
Henry Waddington | Swallow
Catherine Wyn-Rogers | Mrs Sedley
Christopher Gillett | Rev. Horace Adams
Charles Rice | Ned Keene, apothecary and quack
Stephen Richardson | Hobson, carrier
Simon Reid | Dr. Crabbe
Fleetwood Daniels | Boy

Chorus of Opera North
Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Britten–Pears Orchestra
Steuart Bedford | Conductor

Program

Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes
- Prologue: "Peter Grimes"
- Prologue: "You sailed you boat round the coast"
- Prologue: "Peter Grimes, I here advise you"
- Prologue: "The truth – the pity – and the truth"
- Interlude I
- I, 1: "Oh, hang at open doors"
- I, 1: "Good morning, good morning!"
- I, 1: "Hi! Give us a hand!"
- I, 1: "I’ll have to go from pub to pub"
- I, 1: "Let her among you without fault"
- I, 1: "Look! The storm cone!"
- I, 1: "And do you prefer the storm"
- I, 1: "They listen to money"
- I, 1: "What harbor shelters peace"
- Interlude II
- I, 2: "Past time to close"
- I, 2: "Loud man"
- I, 2: "There’s been a landslide up the coast"
- I, 2: "Pub conversation should depend"
- I, 2: "Have you heard the cliff is down"
- I, 2: "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"
- I, 2: "For peace sake"
- I, 2: "The bridge is down"
- Interlude III
- II, 1: "Glitter of waves"
- II, 1: "Child you’re not too young"
- II, 1: "This unrelenting work"
- II, 1: "Fool to let it come to this"
- II, 1: "People… No! I will speak!"
- II, 1: "We planned that their lives"
- II, 1: "Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?"
- II, 1: "From the gutter"
- Interlude IV
- II, 2: "Go there"
- II, 2: "They listen to money"
- II, 2: "Now! Now!"
- II, 2: "Peter Grimes"
- Interlude V
- III, 1: "Assign your prettiness to me"
- III, 1: "Mr. Keene"
- III, 1: "Murder most foul it is"
- III, 1: "Come along, Doctor"
- III, 1: "Embroidery in childhood was"
- III, 1: "Mr. Swallow"
- III, 1: "Who holds himself apart"
- Interlude VI
- III, 2: "Grimes!"
- III, 2: "Peter, we’ve come to take you home"
- III, 2: "To those who pass the Borough"