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Peter Grimes / Benjamin Britten.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, composer, composer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 48 min., 37 sec.)) : sound, colo
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2008]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- video file streaming video file
- Summary:
- Anthony Dean Griffey creates a haunting portrait of the outcast fisherman who struggles under the burden of presumed guilt. This chilling production by Tony Award-winning director John Doyle also features the superb Patricia Racette as the sympathetic Ellen Orford and the Met chorus in a truly hair-raising performance as the oppressively judgmental fishing village.
- Contents:
- Opening credits
- Introduction by Natalie Dessay
- Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes!
- Peter Grimes, I here advise you
- The truth, the pity
- Interlude I: Dawn
- Oh hang at open doors the net, the cork
- Hi! Give us a hand!
- Grimes, you won't need help from now
- Let her among you without fault
- Look! The storm cone!
- And do you prefer the storm
- Picture what that day was like
- What harbor shelters peace
- Interlude II: Storm
- Past time to close!
- We live and let live
- Have you heard?
- Now the Great Bear and Pleiades
- Old Joe has gone fishing
- The bridge is down
- First intermission interviews and Aldeburgh feature
- First intermission interviews
- Interlude III: Sunday morning
- Glitter of waves
- A bruise
- Well, it's begun
- This unrelenting work
- Fool to let it come to this
- We planned that their lives
- Now is gossip put on trial
- From the gutter
- Interlude IV: Passacaglia
- Go there! Go there!
- In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home
- Now! Now!
- Second intermission interviews
- Interlude V: Moonlight
- Assign your prettiness to me
- Pah!
- Come along, doctor
- Embroidery in childhood
- Mr. Swallow! Mr. Swallow!
- Who holds himself apart
- Interlude VI
- Grimes! Steady. There you are
- Peter, we've come to take you home
- To those who pass the borough sounds betray
- Bows and end credits.
- Participant:
- Patricia Racette ; Anthony Dean Griffey ; Anthony Michaels-Moore ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Donald Runnicles, conductor.
- Credits:
- Director, John Doyle.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 2008 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 859396153
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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