Peter Grimes: An Opera in Three Acts and a Prologue

by Benjamin Britten

Contents:
Introduction by Benjamin Britten
George Crabbe: the poet and the man by E.M. Forster
The story of the opera by Montagu Slater
The musical and dramatic structure by Edward Sackville-West

Genres: Music

Paperback

First published January 1, 1945

About the author

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.

Britten's interests as a composer were wide-ranging; he produced important music in such varied genres as orchestral, choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental, as well as film music. He also took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, and was a fine pianist and conductor.

Reviews

[Raúl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un estupendo libreto de Montagu Slater sobre el poema de George Crabbe, crea un universo fantasmatgórico y la figura, en el centro de éste, de Peter Grimes, nunca sabemos hasta qué punto un pobre hombre marcado por el rechazo ciego de la sociedad, o un asesino de niños real, que nunca podrá ser capaz de detener sus impulsos. Una gran ópera, en ese compromiso entre la obra accesible a todos y que no renuncia a los hallazgos de la vanguardia como un elemento compositivo más. Pero, sin duda, una gran obra musical, de una gran fuerza y una construcción soberbia.

[Two Readers in Love · Rating 4 out of 5]

“The more vicious the society, the more vicious the individual,” Benjamin Britten told a Time magazine interviewer shortly after the premiere of Peter Grimes.