Britten: Peter Grimes

Tim Albery's ENO production… conducted with drive by David Atherton, gets to the heart of the opera. I challenge anyone not to be moved by it. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2007 More…

Release Date: 18th May 2003
Catalogue No: 100383
Label: Arthaus Musik

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Britten: Peter Grimes

Philip Langridge (Grimes), Janice Cairns (Ellen), Alan Opie (Balstrode), Ann Howard (Auntie), Andrew Greenan (Swallow), Susan Gorton (Mrs Sedley)
English National Opera
David Atherton

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Recording Date: 1994

Place of recording: English National Opera, At The London Coliseum

Running Time: 144 min

Picture Format: 16:9

Sound Format: PCM Stereo

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October 2007

Tim Albery's ENO production… conducted with drive by David Atherton, gets to the heart of the opera. I challenge anyone not to be moved by it.

2010

Tim Albery's darkly intense production...makes a powerful impression on DVD...As for the principals, their singing, vivid and characterful from first to last, can hardly be faulted, with Philip Langridge even more moving as Grimes than on CD, thanks to his deeply involving acting

March 2014

Tim Albery’s dark and intense ENO production from 1994, finely sung and acted with Philip Langridge's deeply moving Grimes rightly dominating the drama in an interpretation that hinges on textual sensitivity and poetic insight. Alan Opie contributes a stalwart Balstrode and Susan Gorton a properly terrifying Mrs Sedley.

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