Nicky Spence and Sally Matthews in Welsh National Opera’s Peter Grimes - Donald Cooper Turbulence in the background, then, and plenty of turbulence onstage in Britten’s compellingly relevant drama: as ...

The fusion of sound and stage action in the very first moment makes it immediately clear that this production is operatic in the best sense. With the houselights still up and before a note of music is ...

Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” now one of my favorite operas, had to grow on me. The first time I heard the full score I didn’t like it much. I knew the Sea Interludes, the orchestral music played between ...

There needs to be a bigger word than “triumph” to describe the Aspen Music Festival’s accomplishment with “Peter Grimes.” Benjamin Britten’s operatic masterpiece took over the music tent Saturday ...

The San Francisco Symphony closed the 2013-14 season recently with a belated three-week mini-festival honoring the centenary of gay British composer Benjamin Britten's birth. Better late than never, ...

Britten's opera tells of fisherman Peter Grimes, who becomes an outcast after his apprentice dies; as he takes on another apprentice, suspicion from the villagers and his own guilt lead to tragedy.