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2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
Britten: The Burning Fiery Furnace - Aldeburgh Festival, Orford Church, 1966 (Photo: John Richardson / Britten Pears Arts)Flashing through life, this year’s Aldeburgh Festival notches up its 75th edition and features a stellar line-up of international performers offering a wealth of music across a wholesome 17 days. Festival regular, Tony Cooper, reports.Founded by Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Eric Crozier in 1948, the Aldeburgh Festival, originally centred on the Borough’s cosy and intimate Jubilee Hall in Crabbe Street with a seating capacity of just 236. However, when Britten and Pears conceived the bright idea of turning the Victorian-built malt-house at Snape, situated about five miles inland from Aldeburgh, into an 832-seat venue, Snape Maltings Concert Hall was born. Officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1967, the Snape Maltings Concert Hall suffered serious fire damage two years later, re-opening in time for the Aldeburgh Festival the following year. The larger […]
2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
Britten: Peter Grimes - English National Opera (Photo: Tom Bowles)Britten:Peter Grimes; John Findon, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Simon Bailey, Christine Rice, director: David Alden, Martyn Brabbins; English National OperaReviewed by Tony Cooper, 6 October 2023David Alden’s production of Britten’s Peter Grimes has been a big success for English National Opera. A five-star job, really, long may it stay in the repertoireDue to the unavailability of Gwyn Hughes Jones, the pivotal role of Peter Grimes fell to British tenor, John Findon, who fitted so well the sea boots of this lone and anguished fisherman. Partly written in America during the Second World War where Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears were escaping war-torn Britain on a pacifist ticket, Peter Grimes was premièred by Sadler’s Wells Opera (later to become English National Opera) at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Islington, on 7 June 1945, conducted by Reginald Goodall with Peter Pears in the title-role. First seen in […]
2022-03-22 20:57:25
Anglais - Deborah Warner’s New Peter Grimes Has it All at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Premiering in 1945, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from George Crabbe’s eponymous narrative poem, Peter Grimes focuses on the type of outsider figure that always fascinated Benjamin Britten. Set in a nineteenth century Suffolk coastal village referred to simply as ‘the borough’, it focuses on the clash between Grimes, a hard working fisherman who dreams of wealth and respect, and a narrow-minded and repressive community who will never judge him kindly, irrespective of what he actually achieves. When Peter’s boy apprentice dies while they are at sea, an inquest rules that the death was accidental meaning he will not face trial. However, the coroner Swallow interrogates Peter quite severely before delivering his verdict, and suggests he should not get another youngster as people do not forget incidents such as this. Peter protests that he cannot make a living without one, and the schoolmistress Ellen Orford who loves him […]
2022-03-18 14:21:00
Royal Opera House Images: ROH 2022 (c) Yasuko KageyamaThe Boy (Cruz Fitz), Peter Grimes (Allan Clayton) Hobson – Stephen Richardson Swallow – John Tomlinson Peter Grimes – Allan Clayton Ned Keene – Jacque Imbrailo Rev. Horace Adams – James Gilchrist Bob Boles – John Graham-Hall Auntie – Catherine Wyn-Rogers First Niece – Jennifer France Second Niece – Alexandra Lowe Mrs Sedley – Rosie Aldridge Ellen Orford – Maria Bengtsson Bryn Terfel – Captain Balstrode The Boy – Cruz Fitz Aerialist – Jamie Higgins Deborah Warner (director)Michael Levine (set designs)Luis F. Carvalho (costumes)Peter Mumford (lighting)Kim Brandstrup (choreography)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding) Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseMark Elder (conductor) London has proved fortunate with recent productions of Peter Grimes(and doubtless with older ones too). David Alden’s 2014 production for ENO and Willy Decker’s for the Royal Opera (in its 2011 revival) both had considerable virtues and received […]
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