Movie

Peter Grimes (2021)

• May 7, 2021
• 3h 45m

• Music

“The most important English opera since the time(s) of Henry Purcell”

Overview

Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the masses and the individual. The maritime atmosphere, the crudity of people’s lives and passions, and the complex, impenetrable personality of the protagonist come together in a tragedy which ferments and explodes in the din of silence and hearsay. New production of the Teatro Real, in co-production with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden of London, the Opéra national of Paris and the Teatro dell’Opera of Rome

Director

Deborah Warner

Writers

George Crabbe, Montagu Slater

Starring

Allan Clayton, Maria Bengtsson, Christopher Purves