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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.

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Cast

  • 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"

Details

  • Directed by:
    • Margaret Williams
  • Venue: Aldeburgh Festival (Aldeburgh, Great Britain)
  • Production date: 2013
  • Recording date: June 2013
  • Duration: 2 h 20 min
  • Production: © Grimes On The Beach Films LTD
  • Available version(s): EN
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