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It took 2½ years for London's enthusiasm to spread to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Why? For one thing, no one ever accused the Met of being progressive. General Manager Edward Johnson works on the theory that his customers like what they have been given, because...
For a while, he lived with his married sister Beth, but found it difficult to compose while Beth's children played trains under his feet, or left sticky traces of jam on the piano. Then he and Librettist Slater moved to Snape in Suffolk, to a windmill which Britten...
Harsh & Helpless. When Britten finally got the surging dissonances and powerful choruses of Peter Grimes on paper, England had its biggest homegrown musical event since the Edwardian era triumphs of Sir Edward Elgar. The London Times pronounced Peter Grimes "a great opera ... its success is deserved and inevitable."
U.S. Literary Critic Edmund Wilson, dragged unwillingly to Peter Grimes, came away as enthusiastic as everyone else. Wrote he (in his Europe Without Baedeker) : "The opera seizes on you, possesses you, keeps you riveted to your seat during the action and keyed up during the intermissions, and drops you, purged...
"By the time you are done with the opera-or by the time it is done with you -you have decided that Peter Grimes is the whole of bombing, machine-gunning, mining, torpedoing, ambushing humanity which talks about a guaranteed standard of living, yet does nothing but wreck its own...