Peter Grimes

Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the masses and the individual The maritime atmosphere the crudity of peoples lives and passions and the complex impenetrable personality of the protagonist come together in a tragedy which ferments and explodes in the din of silence and hearsay New production of the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden of London the Opéra national of Paris and the Teatro dellOpera of Rome