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4 days ago · July 16. Peter Shimkin hosts operas by Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes, and Puccini, Le Villi. He says “Peter Grimes is Britten's masterpiece with very strong music and an incandescent performance by tenor Jon Vickers as the central character. I saw him do it twice at the Met.
3 days ago · Britten’s return to England, through processes of disclosure and declaration, stood to reveal him homosexual, pacifist, and apostate. The first work he conceived and completed upon his repatriation was the Serenade [setting a range of poets, including Blake].
5 days ago · Britten - Peter Grimes Performances - Opera Company searches from The Opera Critic Search Suite. Search opera singers, conductors, directors, designers from around the world.
3 days ago · Britten Storm at Sea' from Peter Grimes (Act 1) Orchestra: of the Royal Opera House/Britten Label: DECCA 467 682-2. Henry Purcell The Plaint' from The Fairy Queen Jennifer Vyvyan (Nymph), Peter Graeme (oboe), Kenneth Heath (cello continuo), Philip Ledger (harpsichord continuo), (English Chamber Orchestra/Benjamin Britten) Label: DECCA 4331632.
2 days ago · This collection features four historically and musically significant films from the BBC archives of works and performances by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears one of the greatest English tenors and Brittens long-term partner and artistic inspiration.
4 days ago · Britten, Young Person's Guide. statement of the main theme. Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra has an eight-measure theme in D minor based on a tune by Baroque composer Henry - s. After the theme is heard - times in various instrument families, a set of thirteen - follow.
1 day ago · This is a list of serving senior officers of the British Army. It includes currently serving generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, and brigadiers. [1]
