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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 […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-12-14 12:00:00
John Le Carre, Chronicler Of The Internal And External Vicissitudes Of Spy Life, Has Died At 89
Le Carré, the pen name of David Cornwell, worked for the British Foreign Service, running his own Spies, in the 1940s and 1950s. Then came the George Smiley books, including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and le Carré’s career rocketed up. He best “explored the gap between the west’s high-flown rhetoric of […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-12-08 23:01:47
How I Learned To Love Modern Poetry
“Book critics who know nothing about contemporary poetry learn to live with the terror of exposure. We’re like Cold War Spies embedded in enemy territory, waiting for a joke we don’t get or some stray cultural reference that exposes us as frauds.” – Washington Post
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