Richard Bratby

Comes so close to greatness but succumbs to prejudice: Royal Opera’s Peter Grimes reviewed

You reel out on to Bow Street as though you’ve been standing on a sea wall in a spring gale: scoured and buffeted, emotionally drenched, but braced by the experience

A production that comes so close to greatness but, in the crowd scenes, succumbs to prejudice. Credit: © Yasuko Kageyama

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