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BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2017
FOUNDATIONS
Peter Grimes k
GRIEGHALLEN GRIEGSALEN
DATE / TIME Tuesday 30 May at 19:30
DURATION 3:05 including intervals
LANGUAGE Performed in English with Norwegian surtitles
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Introduction ( in Norwegian ) at 18:45 in Grieghallen Foyer
Peter Grimes will also be performed at the Edinburgh International Festival 13 August 2017 .
TICKET Standard : 190 – 640 Under 30 : 150
Festival Card : 30 % discount
Benjamin Britten ’ s masterpiece .
The opera Peter Grimes , set in a claustrophobic seaside town on England ’ s windswept coast , presents some of the most powerful and theatrical music written for the operatic stage .
Peter Grimes is a true psychological thriller , painting a vivid portrait of a small community ’ s descent into suspicion , gossip and bullying in the face of a tragedy . What has happened to fisherman Peter Grimes ’ s missing apprentice ? What part has Grimes , always the town ’ s outsider , played in the boy ’ s disappearance ? As mistrust grows , Grimes ’ s life spirals into downfall with dramatic consequences .
This concert version of Benjamin Britten ’ s great opera , presented in collaboration with the Bergen National Opera and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra , is conducted by the orchestra ' s Chief Conductor Edward Gardner . The title role is sung by tenor Stuart Skelton , whose interpretation of the role is recognised as peerless : ‘ Surely now the Grimes of our day . Not to be missed on stage ’, wrote the Sunday Times .
Presented by the Bergen International Festival , Bergen National Opera and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Sponsored by Morgenbladet
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor
Bergen Philharmonic Choir Edvard Grieg Choir Collegium Musicum ’ s Choir Royal Northern College of Music Choir , Manchester Håkon Matti Skrede choir master
Vera Rostin Wexelsen stage concept Maria af Klinteberg Herresthal Norwegian translation
Stuart Skelton Peter Grimes , a fisherman Giselle Allen Ellen Orford , a widow , Borough schoolmistress Roderick Williams Balstrode , retired merchant skipper Annika Schlicht Auntie , landlady of The Boar Hanna Husáhr 1st niece Vibeke Kristensen 2nd niece Catheryn Wyn-Rogers Mrs . Sedley , a rentier widow Andrew Greenan Swallow , a lawyer Marcus Farnsworth Ned Keene , apothecary and quack Colin Judson Bob Boles , fisherman and Methodist James Gilchrist Rev . Horace Adams , the rector Barnaby Rea Hobson , the carrier
BENJAMIN BRITTEN ( 1913 – 1976 ) music MONTAGU SLATER ( 1902 – 1956 ) libretto Peter Grimes , op . 33
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