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Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes (Complete, uncut)
One World Symphony
One World Symphony Vocal Artists
Sung Jin Hong, Conductor
Friday, January 25, 2008*
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity
Brooklyn Heights, New York
*Brooklyn premiere
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Ansche Chesed Synagogue
Manhattan, New York
Peter Grimes, the first of Britten's operas
to be considered a critical and popular success, exploded onto
the musical scene during the last year of World War II. Set
in Britten's home of East Anglia, the opera was inspired by
the poem "The Borough" by the eighteenth-century
English poet George Crabbe. Britten's Grimes is a tortured
hero, his soul caught in crisis between personal sovereignty
and social conformity. When the two combine fatally, his inevitable
destruction is ensues. Watch and hear as the three protagonists
metaphorically unite order and chaos -- the schizophrenic Grimes,
the force of public opinion (represented by the chorus), and
the enveloping world into which the drama unfolds -- as the
virtuosic symphony weaves together the passionate musical drama.
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