

01/05/2012
The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for "Peter Grimes" at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten's operas on the lyric stages of Italy. A top British cast was marshaled by the baton of Robin Ticciati. Richard Jones's production focuses on the fisherman as the outside in a brutal and brutalized 1980s society, cut off by mutual suspicion and misunderstanding: an unforgettable production of a 20th-century operatic masterpiece that never loses its power. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true Surround Sound.

John Graham-Hall
as Peter Grimes

Susan Gritton
as Ellen Orford

Christopher Purves
as Captain Balstrode

Felicity Palmer
as Auntie

Peter Hoare
as Bob Boles

Daniel Okulitch
as Swallow

Catherine Wyn-Rogers
as Mrs. Sedley

Christopher Gillett
as Rev. Horace Adams

George von Bergen
as Ned Keene

Stephen Richardson
as Hobson

Francesco Malvuccio
as Boy

Ida Falk Winland
as Niece

Simona Mihai
as Niece
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