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Britten: Violin Concerto Chamber Works album review – bravura and brilliance as Faust turns to Britten’s violin writing
11 Apr 2024 15:30 GMT
… violin music of Benjamin Britten, putting the Violin … Viennese School.
Rewarding … Britten Violin Concerto Chamber Works. … Photograph: PR
Unsurprisingly, Britten hadn’t found his distinctive … study for the opera Peter Grimes. The Violin Concerto followed …
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Obituary: Sir Andrew Davis Dies at 80
22 Apr 2024 01:43 GMT
… including “The Queen of Spades,” “Peter Grimes,” “Ermione,” “The Rake’s Progress … from composers Berg, Berlioz, Bizet, Britten, Dvořák, Gilbert and Sullivan, Gounod …
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Peter Grimes (Teatro alla Scala)
25 Oct 2023 22:53 GMT
… production of English composer Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes at Milan’s famed … lyricism.
Teatro alla Scala’s Peter Grimes. Photo © Brescia e Amisano
Nicole … of the finest Peter Grimes around, Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton.
Peter Grimes plays at …
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Peter Grimes at ENO Review: A showcase of extraordinary talent
10 Oct 2023 07:52 GMT
… years since Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes was first staged … The Borough’, Britten’s opera follows the fisherman Peter Grimes after the … in the choral work. Britten’s endless layers and … not have happened. This Peter Grimes is great crashing, complex, …
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The week in classical: Picture a day like this; Peter Grimes; Carol Williams: Mad Rush – review
30 Sep 2023 12:01 GMT
… for her conducting of Britten’s The Rape of … : Tom BowlesAnyone unfamiliar with Peter Grimes should hurry to the revival … the Coliseum, experiencing Benjamin Britten’s 1945 work for the … being unmoving. Reservations aside, Britten’s masterpiece is greater than …
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ENO’s Peter Grimes shows a major international company operating at full artistic power
28 Sep 2023 01:19 GMT
… muttering and menacing. Ah, Britten’s mob: simultaneously the source … it’s essential to Britten’s artistic schema that … too alive, too right. Britten’s fundamental artistry asserts … refuses to be vandalised. Peter Grimes shows a major international company …
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Grim But Excellent Grimes at the ENO - Peter Grimes review
26 Sep 2023 15:00 GMT
Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes was surprisingly a huge … the story of a loner, Peter Grimes, hounded to death by … of the nation and transformed Britten from a much-despised … a postwar British hero.
Peter Grimes has remained popular ever since …
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Peter Grimes review – a thrilling start to English National Opera’s new season
24 Sep 2023 13:45 GMT
… Alden’s disturbing vision of Peter Grimes is given a powerful performance …
David Alden’s staging of Britten’s first major opera was … . Rice is luxury casting, filling Britten’s vocal lines with her … attune to every shift in Britten’s musical landscape, and is …
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ENO’s Peter Grimes is mesmerising
22 Sep 2023 18:44 GMT
Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes is a great opera with … plea for sexual tolerance.
Britten had a lifelong relationship with … in jail. The loner Peter Grimes made an obliquely suitable figure … prescribed by the text.
Peter Grimes at the English National Opera …
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Peter Grimes review – grim but compelling, Alden’s nightmarish staging returns to Coliseum
22 Sep 2023 11:41 GMT
… in closeup. Either way, Britten’s Peter Grimes is an opera that gets … masterstroke … Gwyn Hughes Jones as Peter Grimes and Elizabeth Llewellyn as Ellen …