Peter Grimes on What’s Opera Doc - 10:45PM EST
June 26th, 2008Today June 26th, 2006 on What’s Opera Doc 10:45 PM EST
BRITTEN: Peter Grimes
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Peter Grimes); Felicity Lott (Ellen Orford); Thomas Allen (Captain Balstrode); Patricia Payne (Auntie); Maria Bovino (Niece 1); Gillian Webster (Niece 2); Stuart Kale (Bob Boles); Stafford Dean (Swallow); Sarah Walker (Mrs. Sedley); Neil Jenkins (Rev. Horace Adams); Simon Keenleyside (Ned Keene); David Wilson-Johnson (Hobson); Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Bernard Haitink, cond.
There’s no question that Haitink’s darkly powerful and leisurely direction of Britten’s Peter Grimes is mightily impressive with a uniformly strong cast headed by Britten specialist Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
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