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Peter Grimes / Benjamin Britten.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, composer, composer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
- Live sound recordings.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (2 hr., 20 min., 6 sec.))
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1994]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- audio file streaming audio file
- Summary:
- Tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson gives an intensely moving performance in the title role of the outsider fisherman persecuted by an entire village. Renée Fleming is Ellen Orford, the schoolmistress who stands by him, and Alan Opie sings the sympathetic Captain Balstrode, whose advice to Grimes brings the story to its tragic conclusion. James Conlon expertly leads the Met Orchestra and Chorus through Britten's rivetingly dramatic and atmospheric score.
- Contents:
- Prologue. 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 cast the first stone
- 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
- 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!
- Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes!
- 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.
- Participant:
- Renée Fleming, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Alan Opie ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Conlon, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded live 1994 Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Duration: 2 hr., 20 min., 6 sec.
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 949904933
- Publisher Number:
- USY3P1501168
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- 811357017883
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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