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Peter Grimes, Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Montagu Slater based on the section "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's long narrative poem The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a fictional small town that bears some resemblance to Crabbe's – and later Britten's – home of Aldeburgh , Suffolk , on ...
Of the letters, the best known is that of Peter Grimes in Letter XXII, which formed the basis for Benjamin Britten's opera of the same name. Letter XXI describes Abel Keene, a village schoolmaster and then a merchant's clerk who was led astray, lost his place and finally hanged himself. [1]
"Peter Grimes" is a 1964 television play broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was based on the opera by Benjamin Britten and directed by Christopher Muir. [1] [2] [3] It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre.
Op. 33, Peter Grimes, opera (libretto by Montagu Slater, after George Crabbe), 1945 Op. 33a, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes; Op. 33b, Passacaglia from Peter Grimes; Op. 34, Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell (The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra), 1946; Op. 35, The Holy Sonnets of John Donne for soprano or tenor and ...
Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, [3] [4] the younger son of Rolf Cirkler Aurness (1894–1982), a businessman, and his wife, Ruth (née Duesler, died 1986), a journalist. Graves's ancestry was Norwegian, German, and English.
In 1942, Benjamin Britten chose Slater as librettist for his opera Peter Grimes, which was based on "Letter XXII: Peter Grimes" in George Crabbe's poem The Borough. For the libretto, Slater eschewed the traditional five-stress line form of English rhyming or blank verse in favour of a more modern and conversational four-stress line with rhyming ...
Grimes recently spoke out against Musk bringing their 4-year-old son X Æ A-12 into the Oval Office with Trump while he signed executive orders. “He should not be in public like this,” she ...
Kaufmann commenced the year 2022 with a role debut as the titular role in Britten's Peter Grimes at the Wiener Staatsoper. [24] In March 2022, a studio recording of Turandot was organized by Antonio Pappano at the Santa Cecilia auditorium. Jonas Kaufmann sang the role of Calaf for the first time there alongside Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role.