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Benjamin Britten

Peter Grimes

Peter Grimes, a fisherman - tenor - Jon Vickers
Ellen Orford, a widow, Borough schoolmistress - soprano - Heather Harper
Auntie, landlady of The Boar- contralto - Elizabeth Bainbridge
Niece 1: soprano Teresa Cahill
Niece 2 : soprano: Anne Pashley
Balstrode, retired merchant skipper: baritone Jonathan Summers
Mrs. (Nabob) Sedley, a rentier widow: mezzo-soprano Patricia Payne
Swallow, a lawyer: bass Forbes Robinson
Ned Keene, apothecary and quack: baritone Thomas Allen
Bob Boles, fisherman and Methodist: tenor John Dobson
Rev. Horace Adams, the rector: tenor John Lanigan
Hobson, the carrier: bass Richard Van-Allen

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden conducted by Sir Colin Davis
CD: Philips
Cat: 462847 (reissued 1999)

Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes," in George Crabbe's book The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a fictional village which shares some similarities with Crabbe's, and later Britten's, own home of Aldeburgh, a town on England's east coast.

It was first performed at Sadler's Wells in London on 7 June 1945, conducted by Reginald Goodall, and was the first of Britten's operas to be a critical and popular success. It is still widely performed, both in the UK and internationally, and is considered part of the standard repertoire. In addition, the Four Sea Interludes were published separately (as Op. 33a) and are frequently performed as an orchestral suite. The Passacaglia was also published separately (as Op. 33b), and is also often performed, either together with the Sea Interludes or by itself.