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The new apprentice, a weak young boy from the workhouse, is brought to the pub through a magnificent storm (Britten lets his furious storm music in each time the pub door is opened). The second act finds Ellen sitting beside the boy in the Sunday sunshine; she discovers that Peter...
A few days later, the apprentice's sweater is found washed up on the beach. The townspeople, surex that Grimes has committed another murder, head offstage on a new hunt, chanting now near, now far: "Peter Gri-imes ... Peter Gri-mes." As Peter appears on stage, clearly out of...
The Vicious Society. Composer Britten regards this opera as "a subject very close to my heart-the struggle of the individual against the masses. The more vicious the society, the more vicious the individual." Actually, Grimes does not defy the masses, only their fury: he would like to be one...
Those who have seen Benjamin Britten find it hard to believe that he could conceive so violent a play as Peter Grimes: it is almost like Baby Snooks reading lines from Medea. He is the kind of person no one remembers meeting at a party. Usually to be seen in...
Benjy and Peter Pears (for whom he wrote the leading tenor role of Grimes) arrived in the U.S. in 1939, moved in with Auden, in an arty household at 7 Mid-dagh Street in Brooklyn. It was a ramshackle, remodeled four-story brownstone whose architecture had fascinated Auden and his...