Great Bear and Pleiades from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten ǀ English National Opera
From Act I of Peter Grimes, watch Stuart Skelton perform 'Now the Great Bear and Pleiades' | Find out more: www.eno.org/grimes
Featuring some of the most powerful and evocative opera music ever written, Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes paints a vivid picture of a small community’s transformation into a hateful mob in the face of a local tragedy.
Peter Grimes’ apprentice goes missing in mysterious circumstances. The townspeople’s mistrust of the fisherman then turns into something far darker. Gossip becomes suspicion. Suspicion descends into accusation. The villagers come together with devastating consequences to confront the outsider Grimes.
Part-psychological thriller and part-morality play, Peter Grimes is an elegantly simple story. Beautifully expressed musically, about ever-present forces of fear, suspicion and intolerance. Forces, that if left unchecked, repress our differences and drive us apart as individuals and communities.
‘thrilling’ - 5* Evening Standard
'a magnificent production of one of the most dramatically intense and musically virtuosic operas ever written.' - 5* Bachtrack
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