Released:
2012-05-01

Overview:
The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for "Peter Grimes" at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten's operas on the lyric stages of Italy. A top British cast was marshaled by the baton of Robin Ticciati. Richard Jones's production focuses on the fisherman as the outside in a brutal and brutalized 1980s society, cut off by mutual suspicion and misunderstanding: an unforgettable production of a 20th-century operatic masterpiece that never loses its power. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true Surround Sound.

Directors:
Richard Jones, Patrizia Carmine

Runtime:
2h 34min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  John Graham-Hall
  as
  Peter Grimes
• 
  Susan Gritton
  as
  Ellen Orford
• 
  Christopher Purves
  as
  Captain Balstrode
• 
  Felicity Palmer
  as
  Auntie
• 
  Peter Hoare
  as
  Bob Boles