Peter Grimes

Overview

B. Britten's famous opera, which became a major theatrical event in its production by the National Theater Brno... The story of the opera Peter Grimes is as harsh and stormy as the landscape in which it takes place. A boy dies in a fishing village on the North Sea coast. Fisherman Peter Grimes is suspected of his murder. Although he is acquitted by the court, the locals have their own opinion and make it known. Social outcasts and the sea are the thematic pillars of this tragic opera, in which the staunch pacifist and humanist Benjamin Britten sides with all those who deviate from the norms of mainstream society. Although Benjamin Britten's work forms a fundamental part of contemporary opera production and he is the most frequently staged composer of the 20th century worldwide, in the Czech Republic we rarely have the opportunity to encounter his work. His most famous opera, Peter Grimes, from 1945, had its Czechoslovak premiere two years later at the National Theater in Brno.

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Cast

Joachim Bäckström

Peter Grimes

Jana Šrejma Kačírková

Ellen Orford

Svatopluk Sem

Balstrode

Jana Hrochová

Auntie

Andrea Široká

Niece 1

Tereza Kyzlinková

Niece 2

Vít Nosek

Swallow

Jitka Sapara-Fischerová

Mrs Nabob Sedley

Petr Levíček

Horace Adams

David Nykl

Hobson