Michael Tanner

Britten surprises

Peter Grimes<br /> <em>Opera North</em>

issue 02 February 2008

Peter Grimes
Opera North

Of all Britten’s operas Peter Grimes is the one I have seen most often, and it remains not only the one that I find it hardest to make up my mind about, but also the one which I still don’t feel I know especially well.

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