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2023 / AROP evening / Opera
07 Feb.

Peter Grimes

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    Palais Garnier

    19h30

    Duration
    3h25

    Dress Cocktail attire

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h25
  • 2nd part
    20h55
  • Intermission cocktail
    21h45
  • 3rd part
    22h15
  • End of the performance
    22h55

When Benjamin Britten produced his first opera, Peter Grimes, for the reopening of Sadler’s Wells in London in 1945, its success was both immediate and resounding. Drawing inspiration from a poem by George Crabbe, the British composer did more than simply set to music the text by his compatriot: this work signalled a renaissance in English opera, which had all but disappeared since the death of Purcell. Whilst Britten’s superb orchestral interludes and accomplished lyricism confer upon the work a classical quality, its subject is thoroughly disturbing. Who is this Suffolk fisherman, Peter Grimes, whose apprentice drowns at sea; the butt of the villagers’ hostility? A murderer or an innocent man? A child‑killer or the victim of prejudice? An anti‑hero or a poet? These are some of the questions that make this character one of the most fascinating in the operatic repertoire. Invited to the Paris Opera for the first time and a fine connoisseur of Britten, Deborah Warner preserves all the mystery of this complex work, whilst emphasising the conflict between the group and the individual – a particularly burning issue.

Peter Grimes

Peter Grimes - Deborah Warner

  • Music

    Benjamin Britten
    (1913 - 1976)

  • Conductor
    Alexander Soddy

  • Libretto

    Montagu Slater

  • Director

    Deborah Warner

  • Set design

    Michael Levine

  • Costume design

    Luis F. Carvalho

  • Lighting design

    Peter Mumford

  • Video

    Justin Nardella

  • Contributor to the movements

    Kim Brandstrup

  • Chorus master

    Ching-Lien Wu

Cast

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Allan
Clayton

Peter Grimes

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Maria
Bengtsson

Ellen Orford

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Simon
Keenlyside

Captain Balstrode

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Catherine
Wyn-Rogers

Auntie

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Anna-Sophie
Neher

First Niece

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Ilanah
Lobel-Torres

Second Niece

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John
Graham-Hall

Bob Boles

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Clive
Bayley

Swallow

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Rosie
Aldridge

Mrs. Sedley

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James
Gilchrist

Reverend Horace Adams

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Jacques
Imbrailo

Ned Keene

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Stephen
Richardson

Hobson

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Coproduction avec le Teatro Real, Madrid, le Royal Opera House covent garden, Londres et le teatro dell'opera, Rome

Broadcast on February 25 at 8 pm on France Musique, as part of the program "Samedi à l'Opéra", presented by Judith Chaine.