Peter Grimes 1973Scottish Opera
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A red-blooded revival allowing Roderick Brydon to conduct one of Britten’s large-scale operas. Catherine Wilson also added to her Britten repertoire, and the title role was given an uncompromising performance by the Siegfried from the company’s recent Ring production. In Ian Watt-Smith's meticulous revival the townsfolk were all carefully differentiated, from Norman'White's skeletal and rather nasty Hobson, taking particular glee in his drumming, to Johanna Peters as a domineering yet curiously vulnerable Mrs Sedley.
The spring season included new stagings of Tristan und Isolde and The Coronation of Poppea, as well as further performances of Turn of the Screw, Don Pasquale and Figaro.
Performance Cast
- Hobson carrier, constable of The Borough
- Swallow lawyer, Mayor of The Borough
- Peter Grimes a fisherman
- Mrs 'Nabob' Sedley widow of an East India Company factor
- Ellen Orford widow and schoolmistress
- Captain Balstrode a retired sea officer
- Bob Boles fisherman and Methodist
- Rev Horace Adams the Rector
- Auntie landlady of 'The Boar'
- First 'Niece'
- Second 'Niece'
- Ned Keene apothecary and quack
- Dr Crabbe
- John the new apprentice