Overview
The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for "Peter Grimes" at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten's operas on the lyric stages of Italy. A top British cast was marshaled by the baton of Robin Ticciati. Richard Jones's production focuses on the fisherman as the outside in a brutal and brutalized 1980s society, cut off by mutual suspicion and misunderstanding: an unforgettable production of a 20th-century operatic masterpiece that never loses its power. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true Surround Sound.
Cast
- John Graham-Hall as Peter Grimes
- Susan Gritton as Ellen Orford
- Christopher Purves as Captain Balstrode
- Felicity Palmer as Auntie
- Peter Hoare as Bob Boles
- Daniel Okulitch as Swallow
- Catherine Wyn-Rogers as Mrs. Sedley
- Christopher Gillett as Rev. Horace Adams
- George von Bergen as Ned Keene
- Stephen Richardson as Hobson