Peter Grimes: a short guide
The Royal Opera's Peter Grimes © Clive Barda/ROH 2011 Facts and Figures Opera in a prologue and three acts, sung in English Composer: Benjamin Britten Librettist: Montagu Slater, after the poem ‘The...
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Simon Keenlyside as Wozzeck in Wozzeck © ROH / Catherine Ashmore 2013 From the end of World War I to the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1933, German and Austrian composers revitalized opera in...
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Juan Diego Flórez in La fille du régiment © Bill Cooper Whether cast as heroic warriors, ardent lovers, romantic poets or revolutionary outsiders, tenors are the undisputed kings of opera. We look at a...
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