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Peter Grimes / by Benjamin Britten ; words by Montagu Slater, after the poem [The borough] by George Crabbe.
LIBRA Lon. 4400715281 LD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 video discs : sound, color ; 12 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London : London : [Decca]; New York, N.Y. : manufactured and marketed by PolyGram Video, [1995], c1994]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- CX encoded; CLV, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- CX encoded
- NTSC
- video file
- Summary:
- Set in a small village in England, the story relates fisherman Peter Grimes' inability to become a part of the community. Because his apprentice has been drowned at sea, he has incurred the wrath and distrust of the townspeople.
- Participant:
- Philip Langridge (Peter Grimes) ; Janice Cairns (Ellen Orford) ; Alan Opie (Captain Balstrode) ; Ann Howard (Auntie) ; Andrew Greenan (Swallow) ; Robert Poulton (Ned Keene) ; other soloists ; English National Opera ; David Atherton, conductor.
- Credits:
- Stage production by Tim Albery; directed for television by Barrie Gavin; producer, Jan Youngblood; "associate producer/movement director", Patti Powell; set designer, Hildegard Bechtler; costume designer, Nicky Gillibrand; stage manager, Jane Randall; camera supervisor, Tony Maslen; videotape editor, Stephen Eveleigh; music producer, John Evans.
- Notes:
- Opera in a prologue and three acts.
- An RM Arts co-production in association with Televisión Metropolitana.
- Recorded live from the English National Opera at the London Coliseum.
- Digital sound.
- Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Notes by Philip Brett, and synopsis, both in French with English translation ([6] p.) inserted in container.
- Contains:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Peter Grimes.
- OCLC:
- 33633000
- Publisher Number:
- 4400715281
- 440 071 528-1 London
- 440 071 845-1 London
- 440 071 846-1 London
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