Peter Grimes

John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes), Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford), Christopher Purves (Balstrode), Felicity Palmer (Auntie), Ida Falk Winland (First Niece), Simona Mihai (Second Niece), Peter Hoare (Bob Boles), Daniel Okulitch (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs. Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace Adams), George Von Bergen (Ned Keene) & Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Robin Ticciati (conductor) & Richard Jones (director)

De Italiaanse en internationale pers waren unaniem lovend over Peter Grimes in La Scala, die de traditie van Brittens opera's op de lyrische podia van Italië nieuw leven inblies. Een sterke Britse cast werd bijeengebracht door het stokje van Robin Ticciati, die al gouden medailles won voor zijn operadirectie. In de productie van Richard Jones staat de visser centraal als buitenstaander in een brute samenleving, afgesneden door wederzijds wantrouwen en onbegrip: een onvergetelijke productie van een opera die nooit aan kracht verliest.

Extra feature: Interviews met cast en crew.
Speelduur: 168 minuten / Ondertiteling: EN/FR/DE/JP/KR / Geluidsformaat: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS

Britten:
 Peter Grimes (Recorded live at the Teatro all Scala, June 2012)

"Jones’s production is uncompromising in its hard- hitting emotionalism...The cast isn’t a series of grotesques but a collection of cameos most of us would recognise in our own daily lives. Robin Ticciati conducts a detailed and loving account of the score, and La Scala’s orchestra responds with depth of feeling."
Opera Now ****

"Jones has instilled in his singing actors a level of detail and a harrowing believability one is more accustomed to encountering in spoken drama...Gritton's Ellen is remarkable...[Graham-Hall ] lives his role - earnest, lonely, impulsive, with a desperate desire for acceptance...Ticciati is in full control from the start."
International Record Review - June 2013

"The pride and joy of Richard Jones's production, not to be missed, is its unerring grasp of the psychology and tiered relationship of all the characters. ...Ticciati eschews the weighty, rather Germanic approach of older conductors...concentrating (like Goodall or Hickox) on rhythmic and instrumental subtleties."
Gramophone Magazine - July 2013