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Peter Grimes (1969)

ALL 11/02/1969 (en) Music 142 Min
  • Release
    11/02/1969
  • Production
    BBC
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Peter Grimes
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

This 1969 BBC production is about as close as we can get to a definitive version of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES, one of the greatest 20th Century operas. The story of the individualistic fisherman hounded by his neighbors who believe he murdered his young apprentice packs tremendous emotional power. The compelling narrative is richly enhanced by its subtexts: the lone outsider versus the conformist mob; the dreamer of improbable dreams that lead to tragedy; the artist (dreamer) versus the Philistines, and the homosexual overtones of Grimes' abuse of his child apprentices. Britten is conductor of his work and tenor Peter Pears is Grimes, 25 years after he created the title role at the opera's premiere. As the widow Ellen Orford, soprano Heather Harper is magnificent. Best of all, the sea is an ever-present actor here. When we don't see it in the background it exerts its presence in the abundant visual references to nets, barrels, and other paraphernalia of a seaside fishing village.

  1. Brian Large

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. John Culshaw

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Peter Pears

    Peter Grimes

  2. Heather Harper

    Ellen Orford

  3. Bryan Drake

    Captain Balstrode

  4. Elizabeth Bainbridge

    Auntie

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 4 , Crews : 6

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Peter Grimes (1969) 142 Min

ALL 11/02/1969 (en)
Music
  • Release 11/02/1969
  • Production
    BBC
  • Original title Peter Grimes
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

This 1969 BBC production is about as close as we can get to a definitive version of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES, one of the greatest 20th Century operas. The story of the individualistic fisherman hounded by his neighbors who believe he murdered his young apprentice packs tremendous emotional power. The compelling narrative is richly enhanced by its subtexts: the lone outsider versus the conformist mob; the dreamer of improbable dreams that lead to tragedy; the artist (dreamer) versus the Philistines, and the homosexual overtones of Grimes' abuse of his child apprentices. Britten is conductor of his work and tenor Peter Pears is Grimes, 25 years after he created the title role at the opera's premiere. As the widow Ellen Orford, soprano Heather Harper is magnificent. Best of all, the sea is an ever-present actor here. When we don't see it in the background it exerts its presence in the abundant visual references to nets, barrels, and other paraphernalia of a seaside fishing village.

  1. Brian Large

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. John Culshaw

    Producer



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