Travel Tip: Opera in Italy
Peter Grimes

Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes
New Teatro alla Scala Production
Sung in English with electronic libretto in Italian, English

The opera will be presented for the first time in a new production by English director Richard Jones.

John Graham-Hall, whose portrayal of Gustav von Aschenbach met with acclaim in Death in Venice, stars as impetuous fisherman Peter Grimes in this mysterious tale set in a small fishing village on England’s east coast in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Robin Ticciati, conductor
Staging: Richard Jones
Sets and costumes: Stewart Laing
Choreographic movements: Sarah Fahie
Lights: Mimi Jordan Sherin

Cast
 
Peter Grimes: John Graham-Hall
Ellen Orford: Susan Gritton
Captain Balstrode: Christopher Purves
Auntie: Felicity Palmer
First Niece: Ida Falk Winland
Second Niece: Simona Mihai
Bob Boles: Peter Hoare
Swallow: Daniel Okulitch
Mrs. Sedley: Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Rev. Adams: Christopher Gillett
Ned Keen: George Von Bergen
HobsonS: tephen Richardson
A Lawyer: Luca Di Gioia
A Fisherwoman: Annalisa Forlani