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	Peter Grimes
		At the inquest, Grimes tells a story of distress at sea, how he and the boy, when out fishing, were driven from their course by a wind change, how they were three days without water, and how the boy died of exposure.
		Grimes is acquitted of any wrongdoing and Ellen comforts him as she tells of her confidence in his future.
		Grimes is told of a boy who could be his next apprentice, and while they fetch the boy, Ellen agrees, amidst much criticism, to look after the him.
	members.tripod.com /~davidkaye/id60.htm (560 words)

	ML Hart - Opera: Production Photographs / Peter Grimes
		Grimes is also present and joins in the singing, but both words and tune are out of rhythm, almost of his own making, another representation of how he doesn't fit in with the villagers.
		Peter's "Mad Scene" is a long, loosely-strung-together sequence of thoughts and memories, quotations from earlier sections in the opera, that don't quite make sense - and provide a clear image of one whose mind is on the verge of slipping away.
		Peter is losing his grip on reality rather than tapping into memories, and it is a different kind of music that expresses this.
	www.mlhart.com /opera/01petergrimes.htm (1558 words)

	Peter Grimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Grimes replies he is "native, rooted here"; but touched by Balstrode's kindness, he tells him in an arioso passage the story of his horrifying experience at sea with only the corpse of the dead boy as company.
		Grimes, believing the boy to be the cause, warns him to be careful and hustles him down the cliff, turning as he senses the procession nearing his door to hear the boy scream as he falls down the cliff to his death.
		Peter Pears was more resigned in the role - and not that aggressive character who is going to fashion the world in his own image, which is what Peter Grimes is really trying to do.
	artfuljesus.0catch.com /lit-opera/grimes.html (2553 words)

	Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Murder Will Out: Colin Davis' Peter Grimes
		“Grimes” ranks high among operas of the past century, not only because the music is so fiendishly good but because the music and the words together propel a debate that never stops raging.
		According to this view, Grimes is a difficult, unlikable man—a rageaholic, let’s say—but he is not to blame for the deaths of his two apprentices, the first of whom drowns before the opera begins and the second of whom falls off a cliff in Act II.
		Sedley, the opium-addicted busybody who accuses Grimes of murder, is a diseased Miss Marple who has been searching all her life for a crime equal to her hallucinations.
	www.therestisnoise.com /2004/04/peter_grimes.html (1488 words)

	OPERA REVIEW: Power and Eloquence "Peter Grimes" At Its Best By Marvin Tartak (San Francisco Opera, Thomas Moser, Alan ...
		Though the singing of the American tenor Thomas Moser, as Grimes, was without fault, it was his acting that carried the role.
		Grimes is a fairly despicable character, given to rages, bouts of paranoid self-pity, a physical brute known to his neighbors for beating his boy apprentices.
		After all is said and done, one is left with one other dimension to the story: the landscape of East Anglia (and home to Britten), the seacoast, the marshes, the harsh, bleak greyness of life in that part of the world.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/grimes_11_24_98.php (824 words)

	Britten-Pears Foundation - brittenpears.org
		Peter Pears purchased a volume of Crabbe’s poetry shortly after Britten read Forster’s article and, as he was later to inscribe in the flyleaf of the book, it was from his and Britten’s reading of the long poem ‘The Borough’ that “we started work on the plans for making an opera out of Peter Grimes”.
		Grimes is driven by fate as well as his innate self-destruction to set himself apart from everyone else.
		Grimes was sung by Peter Pears, Ellen Orford by Joan Cross and Captain Balstrode by Roderick Jones.
	www.brittenpears.org /?page=britten/works/grimes.html (1825 words)

	Peter Grimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Grimes marked his second operatic endeavour, after the failure of his first, Paul Bunyan written in the United States in 1941.
		Britten was particularly attracted to the character Peter Grimes, a villainous, violent fisherman who through his efforts at financial and personal success loses three successive apprentices at sea.
		In Crabbe's original, Grimes is not easily pitied, but in the Britten version, the character becomes almost heroic a victim of an extraordinary bad series of events.
	homepage.mac.com /wmcfar/grimes.html (489 words)

	Amazon.ca: Peter Grimes Comp: Music: Benjamin Britten,Sir Colin Davis,Royal Opera House Orchestra Covent Garden,Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Grimes contains a horror story within its borders that is as macabre as anything Hitchcock ever directed...
		The fact of the matter is, Grimes is off his rocker, a potentially dangerous character whom everyone seems to hate.
		Their cries for Peter Grimes's death in the third act is chilling, esp. with the prolonged silences in between.
	www.amazon.ca /Peter-Grimes-Comp-Benjamin-Britten/dp/B00000J9GQ (2355 words)

	Royal Opera House - 'Peter Grimes' - The Opera
		The scene at Peter’s hut, for example, can be very difficult; you have to be inside and outside the hut at the same time, it has to be perched on a cliff, and the Apprentice’s fall has to believable, if not realistic.
		His 'Peter Grimes' was all run-down houses and swirling clouds, painted on the flat surfaces of traditional scenery.
		'Peter Grimes' might be spare of scenery but it is good on props: a magistrate’s hammer for Swallow at the beginning, nets for the fishermen, boats, capstans, Mrs Sedley’s medicine bottle, pint pots in the pub, Ellen’s embroidery, the apprentice's jersey that Ellen and Balstrode find washed up on the beach.
	www.rohedpetergrimes.org.uk /pgs/main/news_story.asp?id=24 (1391 words)

	Peter Grimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the Peter Grimes section of George Crabbe's poem The Borough.
		Chandos: Richard Hickox, conductor; Philip Langridge (Peter Grimes), Janice Watson (Ellen Orford), Alan Opie (Balstrode), Roderick Williams (Ned Keene); City of London Sinfonia, London Symphony Chorus, and Opera London
		Kulture (1994): David Atherton, conductor; Philip Langridge (Peter Grimes), Janice Cairns (Ellen Orford), Alan Opie (Balstrode), Ann Howard (Auntie); Orchestra and Chorus of English National Opera
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Grimes (978 words)

	"Peter Grimes" San Francisco Opera Review by Paul Berenson
		Peter wants to marry her, but first he must live down his unpopularity and lift himself out of poverty.
		She tells him "You've learned how close life is to torture," and "the storm and all it's terrors are nothing to heart's despair." Peter arrives, and drives the boy back to his hut, so they can go out fishing to make more money.
		In Act 3 she sings a beautiful aria of the embroidered anchor of the boy's, which she has found on the shore, and which tells her he is dead.
	www.paulb.com /peterg.htm (841 words)

	Peter Grimes
		The turbulent, fluid conducting of Richard Farnes reinforces that the chief character of Peter Grimes is the sea, and the Opera North chorus is magnificent throughout.
		The chorus is arresting in its precision, its venom chilling the blood as the bellicose rabble seizes upon and dismembers an effigy of Grimes, its prey.
		Grimes may be his own worst enemy, but Richard Angas's dirty old man of a mayor is emblematic of a sanctimonious community unfit to judge him, let alone destroy him in effigy, as in the chilling sequence leading up to those terrifying chants of his name by a rampant lynch-mob.
	www.operanorth.co.uk /operazone/omreviews.aspx?opera=34 (2193 words)

	Opera North's 'Peter Grimes', reviewed by Patric Standford
		In a powerful role like this, only sixty years old and with fine yet highly contrasted tenors like Peter Pears and Jon Vickers documented as part of its essential history, it would not be unexpected to see a kind of impersonation from a singer new to the part.
		Grimes has the support of only two of the inhabitants of this insular fishing village, both demanding roles in the drama.
		The part of the disappointed and kindly schoolmistress Ellen Orford, who sees Grimes as her future and his ill-fated boy apprentices as her charges, is given appealing strength by soprano Giselle Allen, and the retired sea captain Balstrode, who understands, is vigorously sung by baritone Christopher Purves.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2006/11/peter-grimes1.htm (303 words)

	Peter Grimes @ Royal Opera House : opera review
		Grimes was shown leaning over the pale coffin of the dead boy in agony, unable to comprehend his own actions.
		Only the schoolmistress, Ellen Orford, has sympathy for Grimes, and her love is returned, but Grimes refuses to marry her until he has enough money to support her.
		She is frequently placed between the people of the Borough and Grimes, trying to stop the latter from his self-destructive streak whilst being forced to conform to the Borough's rules.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/peter-grimes.htm (791 words)

	Amazon.com: Britten - Peter Grimes / Pears Â· C. Watson Â· Pease Â· Brannigan Â· J. Watson Â· Elms Â· ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The great gossip scene in Act II is a case in point: ever striking Ellen, Grimes cries out the phrase, "And may God have mercy upon me" and exits, as his phrase is taken up in a round through the different sections of the orchestra, mirroring the way the gossip is about to spread.
		First we hear it as frightened chiding at Ellen's indulgent behavior towards Peter, then as a sarcastic commentary on the town's likely propensity to gossip, then (finally) as the gossip itself about the attack, which gathers greater and greater momentum until the townspeople are almost hysterical with indignation.
		Peter Pears had a voice that you either loved or hated, but all of the major Britten tenor roles were written for him, and to my mind, that makes him the definitive Grimes.
	amazon.com /Britten-Brannigan-Studholme-Nilsson-Lanigan/dp/B0000041QP (2627 words)

	World-renowned director sets sail on new voyage with IU Opera production of "Peter Grimes"
		Peter Grimes features a complex central character and well-defined subsidiary characters as well as a powerful score, featuring six "sea" interludes that are often performed in concert by themselves.
		"(Peter Grimes) is extremely relevant, especially at this particular moment in time when America is becoming very puritanical," Graham said, citing the recent controversy swirling around the issue of gay marriage.
		Peter Grimes will be performed on April 9 and 10 and again on April 16 and 17 at the Musical Arts Center.
	newsinfo.iu.edu /news/page/normal/1355.html (1449 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Peter Grimes
		Grimes is one of opera's great roles -- the hulking misanthrope with the poet's heart.
		Nancy Gustafson's gentle-yet-strong Ellen, the schoolmarm who tries to protect Grimes from himself, and Richard Stilwell's sympathetic sea captain Balstrode head a cast that couldn't be bettered, moved along by Richard Armstrong's firm steering on the podium.
		They come down to the footlights, and howl their "Peter Grimes!" out into the vastness of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and it's as if the huge waves of a North Sea storm had been set loose upon the crowd.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117788425?categoryid=34&cs=1 (588 words)

	Amazon.com: Britten: Peter Grimes: Music: Benjamin Britten,Colin Davis,Jon Vickers,Heather Harper,Covent Garden ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Benjamin Britten, as composer and conductor, clearly preferred the lighter-toned and more shaded Peter Grimes characterization of his muse and partner, Peter Pears, as can be heard in the classic late '50s recording on Decca/London.
		'Peter Grimes' is arguably Benjamin Britten's greatest opera...not bad when you consider the high stature of many of his other operas.
		The first British opera to achieve repertory status since Purcell's Dido, 'Peter Grimes' is an arresting, jarring tale in which the orchestra is as much a character as any of the vocal roles.
	www.amazon.com /Britten-Peter-Grimes-Benjamin/dp/B00000J9GQ (2123 words)

	Amazon.com: Britten - Peter Grimes / Pears · C. Watson · Pease · Brannigan · J. Watson · Elms · Studholme · ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The great gossip scene in Act II is a case in point: ever striking Ellen, Grimes cries out the phrase, "And may God have mercy upon me" and exits, as his phrase is taken up in a round through the different sections of the orchestra, mirroring the way the gossip is about to spread.
		First we hear it as frightened chiding at Ellen's indulgent behavior towards Peter, then as a sarcastic commentary on the town's likely propensity to gossip, then (finally) as the gossip itself about the attack, which gathers greater and greater momentum until the townspeople are almost hysterical with indignation.
		Peter Pears had a voice that you either loved or hated, but all of the major Britten tenor roles were written for him, and to my mind, that makes him the definitive Grimes.
	www.amazon.com /Britten-Brannigan-Studholme-Nilsson-Lanigan/dp/B0000041QP (2523 words)

	Opera North: The Peter Grimes Blog: June 2006
		Unlike Peter Grimes, who as we know would look in the face of any storm and laugh, I'm afraid that the weather got the better of me last weekend.
		Although the first performance is five months away, I have been living with Peter Grimes for a good year and a half.
		It is very exciting that Peter Grimes will also be part of the season that reopens the wonderful Grand Theatre.
	thepetergrimesblog.blogspot.com /2006_06_01_thepetergrimesblog_archive.html (933 words)

	Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An inquest is held into the death at sea of the young boy apprenticed to the fisherman Peter Grimes, who is acquitted but warned not to take on another apprentice.
		The schoolmistress Ellen Orford, loyal to Grimes, helps him get another boy despite the warning, but quarrels with him when she learns the boy has been treated roughly.
		As Grimes and the boy try to escape, the boy slips and falls down the cliff to his death.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=3178 (746 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Britten - Peter Grimes: Music: Benjamin Britten,Covent Garden Royal Opera House Chorus,Sir Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Grimes was, of course, the first of Britten's great operatic gifts to his lover and muse, Peter Pears.
		This is the composer's own realisation of the work, and as such is closest to the PETER GRIMES of his mindscape.
		This recording of Peter Grimes, with the part of Peter sung by Peter Pears, is still the finest rendition of this wonderful opera.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Britten-Peter-Grimes-Benjamin/dp/B000059ZIE (1304 words)

	Opera North: The Peter Grimes Blog: Coaching
		Phyllida is often out of the country, rehearsing a show, or catching up with one of her productions that may have been running a while.
		The relationships between Grimes and his apprentices is at the centre of the opera.
		In the opera, Grimes is a more rounded character than in the poem The Borough (by Crabbe).
	thepetergrimesblog.blogspot.com /2006/06/coaching.html (495 words)

	'Peter Grimes' at Covent Garden, reviewed by Robert Hugill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amazingly it is nearly thirty years since the first night of Elijah Moshinsky's production of Peter Grimes at Covent Garden, so not surprisingly they have decided to replace it with a 'new' one.
		Peter Grimes was placed at a distance from the chorus and was carrying a coffin, presumably the apprentice's.
		Only when Grimes asks for help with his boat, did the backdrop part to reveal a fl and white seascape (loosely based on Turner).
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2004/07/grimes1.htm (285 words)

	Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
		Peter Grimes is a brusque and impolite fisherman whose stock with the villagers is low, especially after his apprentice dies under circumstances that arouse suspicion among the townsfolk.
		She tells Grimes that peace of mind cannot be bought by dint of hard labor, angering the fisherman, who hits her.
		Grimes sails his boat away and sinks it, following it into its watery grave.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/21/37921/features.php (392 words)

	Peter Grimes, Royal Opera House, London \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Peter Grimes at the Royal Opera House: 'a lack of identity...
		Covent Garden's "new" Peter Grimes is actually a 10-year old production, first seen at La Monnaie in Brussels.
		The handling of the chorus, which is pressed into wonderfully potent stage patterns, is virtuosic, but the protagonists are mostly ciphers; only Alan Opie's Balstrode, witty, wise and full of telling detail, has a strong presence.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,11712,1253987,00.html (431 words)

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