Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Ken Howard/Metropolitan OperaA rehearsal of Peter Grimes at the ...

The most terrifying moment I know in Western music is the gathering of the mob in the third act of Benjamin Britten’s 1945 opera, “Peter Grimes,” set to open at the Metropolitan Opera on Oct. 16. More ...

Nicky Spence and Sally Matthews in Welsh National Opera’s Peter Grimes - Donald Cooper Turbulence in the background, then, and plenty of turbulence onstage in Britten’s compellingly relevant drama: as ...

Opera is theater. Sometimes that seems to be forgotten. When a Eugene O'Neill play is revived, it's welcomed as a classic. When an opera by Benjamin Britten from the same period is revived, people ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Allan Clayton brings pathos and terror, along with energy where it’s often missing, to a revival of Britten’s “Peter Grimes.” By Joshua Barone ...

From left, Brandon Jovanovich (as Sergei), Nikolai Schukoff (Zinovy Ismailov) and Svetlana Sozdateleva (Katerina Ismailova) in a dress rehearsal of Metropolitan Opera production of Dmitri Shostakovich ...

NEW YORK -- Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes" is one of the greatest operas of the 20th century. It's also funny and colorful, as well as tragic, and when it opened in 1945, some commentators ...