Britten: Peter Grimes

Britten: Peter Grimes

168 mins | Music | March 15, 2008

Anthony Dean Griffey creates a haunting portrait of the outcast fisherman who struggles under the burden of presumed guilt. This chilling production by Tony Award-winning director John Doyle also features the superb Patricia Racette as the sympathetic Ellen Orford and the Met chorus in a truly hair-raising performance as the oppressively judgmental fishing village.

Britten: Peter Grimes

168 mins | Music | March 15, 2008

Britten: Peter Grimes
Anthony Dean Griffey creates a haunting portrait of the outcast fisherman who struggles under the burden of presumed guilt. This chilling production by Tony Award-winning director John Doyle also features the superb Patricia Racette as the sympathetic Ellen Orford and the Met chorus in a truly hair-raising performance as the oppressively judgmental fishing village.
Producers The Metropolitan Opera
Original title Britten: Peter Grimes
Directors John Doyle, Gary Halvorson
Writers George Crabbe, Montagu Slater

Cast

Anthony Dean Griffey

as Peter Grimes

Patricia Racette

as Ellen Orford

Anthony Michaels-Moore

as Balstrode

Jill Grove

as Auntie

Felicity Palmer

as Mrs. Sedley

Teddy Tahu Rhodes

as Ned Keene

John del Carlo

as Swallow

Greg Fedderly

as Bob Boles

Erin Morley

as Niece

Leah Partridge

as Niece

Dean Peterson

as Hobson

Bernard Fitch

as Rev. Horace Adams

Natalie Dessay

as Self - Host

Donald Runnicles

as Self - Conductor