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Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Winter Words (arr Holloway), etc album review – confirms Gardner’s status as an outstanding conductor of Britten
12 Jun 2025 14:44 GMT
… Peter Grimes had not already firmly established his credentials as an outstanding Britten … outstanding account of one Britten’s greatest orchestral achievements … Robin Holloway of Britten’s Thomas Hardy … song cycle Winter Words.
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, …
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Peter Grimes review – Britten’s masterpiece returns to WNO
07 Apr 2025 09:47 GMT
… s new staging of Peter Grimes showcases a standout debut … missing the mark.
Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes is always a tough … of the troubled fisherman, Peter Grimes. His interpretation was a … manhunt – their cries of ‘Peter Grimes’ pinning you to the …
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Review Peter Grimes Welsh National Opera - 'a socially-provocative tour de force'
01 May 2025 23:03 GMT
… National Opera’s production of Peter Grimes at Southampton's Mayflower … a case in point. Benjamin Britten’s modernist opera, set in … the rough-and-ready fisherman Peter Grimes, a social misfit who is …
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Oliver Zeffman is reclaiming music’s queer history with Classical Pride
02 Jul 2025 19:55 GMT
… and The Nutcracker) to Benjamin Britten (Peter Grimes and Death in Venice).
This … about classical music, but Tchaikovsky, Britten, Barber, Schubert, probably Ethel Smyth …
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Devastating: WNO’s Peter Grimes reviewed
17 Apr 2025 03:26 GMT
Britten’s Peter Grimes turns 80 this June, and … -too-facile 31-year-old Britten as a fully formed musical … in the first moments of Peter Grimes, Britten does precisely that. The folk … are the tide upon which Peter Grimes swims, and Hanus and his …
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Peter Grimes — a full-blooded music-theatre experience
06 Apr 2025 21:50 GMT
… Opera’s new production of Peter Grimes had an unusual addition. On … and chorus as they delivered Britten’s still startlingly atmospheric 1945 …
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Peter Grimes – WNO’s production of Britten’s masterwork seethes like a wild and cruel sea
06 Apr 2025 14:57 GMT
… s staging.
Mob mentality … Peter Grimes. Photograph: Donald Cooper… .
Nicky Spence as Peter Grimes with Sally Matthews as … ’s staging of Britten's Peter Grimes. Photograph: John Snelling … his blood.
Tangled web … Peter Grimes. Photograph: Donald Cooper…
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Britten’s Opera for Children Delights Audience at New National Theatre, Tokyo on Children’s Day; 1st Return of Kids’ Opera at Venue Since 2011
15 May 2025 07:55 GMT
… opera for children by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) delighted audiences … two days last week.
Britten loved writing music for children … The suspense was enhanced by Britten’s inspiring music, which … the women’s quartet in “Peter Grimes,” and the nighttime music …
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Peter Grimes review – Netia Jones’s brutal new production electrifies
15 Mar 2025 13:15 GMT
… doom with riptide inevitability, Peter Grimes (1945) is ruled by … occasions its composer, Benjamin Britten, said as much himself. … Lord – one of Britten’s characteristic musical cross- … massed singing-shouting of “Peter Grimes!” by the excellent Gothenburg …
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Obituary: Margaret Neville Passes Away at 86
27 Jun 2025 17:32 GMT
… “Carmen,” the First Niece in Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” Despina in Mozart’s …
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