PETER GRIMES

Opera in three acts and a prologue by Benjamin Britten (1945)

Composer Benjamin Britten. Text by Montagu Slater based on the poem by George Crabbe.
In englischer Sprache · Mit Übertiteln in deutscher und englischer Sprache.

Premiere at 28. February 2022

Thursday, 10. March 2022, 07:00 pm o'clock – 10:00 pm o'clock, Nationaltheater.

Duration est. 3 hours

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Conductor	Edward Gardner
Production	Stefan Herheim
Set Design	Silke Bauer
Costume Design	Esther Bialas
Lighting	Michael Bauer
Video	Torge Møller
Dramaturgy	Malte Krasting Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach
Choruses	Stellario Fagone

Peter Grimes	Stuart Skelton
Ellen Orford	Rachel Willis-Sørensen
Balstrode	Iain Paterson
Auntie	Claudia Mahnke
1. Nichte	Lindsay Ohse
2. Nichte	Emily Pogorelc
Bob Boles	Thomas Ebenstein
Swallow	Brindley Sherratt
Mrs. Sedley	Jennifer Johnston
Rev. Horace Adams	Robert Murray
Ned Keene	Konstantin Krimmel
Hobson	Daniel Noyola
Der Junge	Jakob Biber

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper

Children's chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper

The opera begins with a showdown – a trial, which should actually take place at the end. A boy has died, drowned while fishing with the fisherman Peter Grimes. The circumstances are suspicious, but evidence for a conviction there is not. The acquittal is ambivalent, the stigma of being of a violent nature sticks to Grimes – as if the townspeople believe it should be so, both opponents and friends. Some see an enemy in the outcast, others the object of their compassion. Grimes is faced with ill will on all fronts, like Sisyphus. A vicious circle! It was also a life-long concern for Britten: “... the struggle of the individual against the masses. The more vicious the society, the more vicious the individual.” Everywhere he turns the snare tightens, until another piece of misfortune seals Grimes’s fate. Britten’s first grand opera is an inexhaustible panorama of interpersonal entanglements, illustrated by the world of simple coastal folk, whose seams are only scantily held together. His music penetrates deep into the soul with its tones for the lonesome individual, the unleashed masses and eternal nature.

The opera begins with a showdown: the trial, which should actually be at the end. A boy has died, dying of thirst while on a fishing trip with the fisherman Peter Grimes. The circumstances are suspicious, but evidence for a conviction is lacking. Yet the acquittal is ambivalent, the stigma of violence clings to Grimes; as if people would like it that way, opponents and friends alike. Some see in the outcast an enemy, others the object for their mercy. Grimes runs against resentment like a Sisyphus. A vicious circle!

Who draws the circle around his own little kingdom, in which every man wants to and is allowed to rule for himself? Whoever rebels is branded a rebel. The revolution eats its children, society breeds its martyrs.

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