Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” directed by Deborah Warner in her Paris Opera debut, reintroduces a 20th-century composer to French audiences. By David Belcher The bitter and bloodthirsty ...

The most terrifying moment I know in Western music is the gathering of the mob in the third act of Benjamin Britten’s 1945 opera, “Peter Grimes,” set to open at the Metropolitan Opera on Oct. 16. More ...

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Sunday afternoon the Metropolitan Opera continued its most unconventional season by following up Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with Britten’s Peter Grimes, a second mid-twentieth century ...

There are few operas which, at once, give some insight into the history of the current UK opera scene, the sexual politics of the 1940s and the darkness within Benjamin Britten's mind. Peter Grimes ...

Opera is theater. Sometimes that seems to be forgotten. When a Eugene O'Neill play is revived, it's welcomed as a classic. When an opera by Benjamin Britten from the same period is revived, people ...

Peter Grimes, the opera by Benjamin Britten (1945), is a very orchestral work—even apart from the famous “Sea Interludes.” It must be one of the most orchestral operas in the repertoire. And the ...

The “Borough” in which Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes takes place, loosely associated with the composer’s gentrified Aldeburgh, has been relocated sixty miles down the East Anglian coast to Jaywick ...