Britten's Peter Grimes : Margaret Williams (stage director), Steuart Bedford (conductor) - with Alan Oke (Peter Grimes) and Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford) - Aldeburgh Festival / Aldeburgh Music, in association with Grimes on the Beach Film Ltd., presents ; music by Benjamin Britten ; libretto by Montagu Slater ; directed for the screen by Margaret Williams ; live production directed by Tim Albery ; producers, Anne Beresford, Debbie Gray.

[England] : Grimes On The Beach Films LTD, 2013.

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Discover "the most talked about event of the summer": the film Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach, shown in more than 90 cinemas across the UK during Autumn 2013. In June 2013, film maker Margaret Williams immortalized Tim Albery's exceptional staging of the Britten's opera on the beach in Aldeburgh, the city in which the opera's story is set. Filmed during three extraordinary performances during the Aldeburgh Festival, Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach is the film interpretation of Britten's Peter Grimes, the most successful opera of post-war Britain. Based on George Crabbe's 1810 poem "The Borough", Britten's powerful and masterful evocation of the North Sea in all its moods has become inextricably linked with the Aldeburgh that was home to Crabbe in the late eighteenth century and Britten in the twentieth, and where both poem and opera were written. Conceived of and hosted by the Aldeburgh Festival, the performances of Peter Grimes were directed by Tim Albery, who placed the audience on the beach, watching the story unfold as dusk falls over the sea. The cast and chorus, with Alan Oke in the eponymous role of Peter Grimes, Giselle Allen as Ellen Orford, and David Kempster as Captain Balstrode, sing live with amplification, while the Britten-Pears Orchestra under the baton of Britten-expert Steuart Bedford is pre-recorded

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November 08, 2021

Screen director, Margaret Williams ; stage director, Tim Albery ; set and costume design, Leslie Travers ; lighting design, Lucy Carter.

Alan Oke (Peter Grimes) ; Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford) ; David Kempster (Captain Balstrode) ; Gaynor Keeble (Auntie) ; Alexandra Hutton (first niece) ; Charmian Bedford (second niece) ; Robert Murray (Bob Boles) ; Henry Waddington (Swallow) ; Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs. Sedley) ; Charles Rice (Ned Keene) ; Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace Adams) ; Stephen Richardson (Hobson) ; the Chorus of Opera North ; Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama ; Britten-Pears Orchestra ; Steuart Bedford, conductor.

Peter Grimes / Benjamin Britten.