Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” now one of my favorite operas, had to grow on me. The first time I heard the full score I didn’t like it much. I knew the Sea Interludes, the orchestral music played between ...
Nicky Spence and Sally Matthews in Welsh National Opera’s Peter Grimes - Donald Cooper Turbulence in the background, then, and plenty of turbulence onstage in Britten’s compellingly relevant drama: as ...
It was Serge Koussevitzky, the Jewish-born Russian conductor of the Boston Symphony, who commissioned British composer Benjamin Britten to write his opera, Peter Grimes. And it was the “Four ...