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PETER GRIMES ON ALDEBURGH BEACH

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