Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicky Spence and Sally Matthews in Welsh National Opera’s Peter Grimes - Donald Cooper Turbulence in the background, then, and ...

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 ...

It would have happened like this, I’m sure, even if Melly Still’s new staging of Britten’s masterpiece had been a flop. But of course it was not and is not. To say that there is an air of defiance ...

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Welsh National Opera has announced its Spring 2025 Season. WNO Music Director Tomáš Hanus conducts new production of Peter Grimes with role debuts for Nicky Spence and Dame Sarah Connolly. Soprano ...

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.

The bleak, enclosed world of a fishing village provides the backdrop for the story of fisherman Peter Grimes and his uneasy relationship with the other inhabitants. Following the death of Grimes's ...