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HD multi-camera film, 145′
Peter Grimes is probably composer Benjamin Britten’s most famous and admired opera.
Available DVD and Blu-ray.
Peter Grimes is probably composer Benjamin Britten’s most famous and admired opera, appreciated around the globe for its visceral beauty and portrayal of a small community, which struggles to accommodate the fisherman Peter Grimes, who is seen as an outsider.
The opera is set in real locations around the town of Aldeburgh, where Britten lived for nearly thirty years and where he founded the Aldeburgh Festival, an extraordinary musical legacy which lives on.
Filmed on the beach with the North Sea and sky as a backdrop, during three extraordinary performances during the Aldeburgh Festival – in the centenary year of Britten’s birth, 2013.
PETER GRIMES on ALDEBURGH BEACH has a first rate cast and orchestra with locals as extras.
C R E D I T S
composer
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
words
MONTAGU SLATER
performed by arrangement
with B&H London
stage director
TIM ALBERY
BRITTEN-PEARS ORCHESTRA
conductor
STUART BEDFORD
designer
LESLIE TRAVERS
lighting designer
LUCY CARTER
C A S T
Peter Grimes
ALAN OKE
Ellen Orford
GISELLE ALLEN
Captain Balstrode
retired merchant skipper
DAVID KEMPSTER
Auntie
landlady of “The Boar” pub
GAYNOR KEEBLE
Niece 1
ALEXANDRA HUTTON
Niece 2
CHARMIAN BEDFORD
Bob Boles
fisherman and Methodist
ROBERT MURRAY
Swallow, a lawyer
HENRY WADDINGTON
Mrs. (Nabob) Sedley
a rentier widow of an East India Company’s factor
CATHERINE WYN-ROGERS
Rev. Horace Adams
the rector
CHRISTOPHER GILLETT
Ned Keene
apothecary and quack
CHARLES RICE
THE CHORUS OF OPERA NORTH
with
THE CHORUS OF THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA
P E R F O R M A N C E F I L M I N G
camera supervisor
JAMES DAY
cameras
GILES PRITCHARD
CAROL SADLER
DAN SCALA
PRAVIN SHETTY
additional camera
DAVID SCOTT
5Ds
PIP WHITE
NICK BRADBURY
broadcast consultant
ED EVEREST
vision engineer
DAVID GRIFFITHS
lighting directors
LUCY CARTER
JOHN E WALKER
colourist
KEVIN HORSEWOOD
recording engineer
MIKE HATCH
music recording consultant
NICHOLAS PARKER
script supervisor
GEMMA DIXON
vision mixer
PRISCILLA HOADLEY
editor
STEVE EVELEIGH
line producer
JOANNA GUERRITZ
producer
ANNE BERESFORD
executive producer
JONATHAN REEKIE
directed for the screen
by
MARGARET WILLIAMS