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Britten: Peter Grimes
John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes); Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford); Christopher Purves (Captain Balstrode); Felicity Palmer (Auntie); Peter Hoare (Bob Boles); Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley)
The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for Peter Grimes at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten’s operas on the lyric stages of Italy. A top British cast was marshalled by the baton of Robin Ticciati. Richard Jones’s production focuses on the fisherman as the outsider in a brutal and brutalised 1980s society, cut off by mutual suspicion and misunderstanding: an unforgettable production of a 20th-century operatic masterpiece that never loses its power. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true Surround Sound.
DVD
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 01/04/2013
Sound Formats:
Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic
Subtitles:
Catalogue Number: OA1103D
BLU-RAY
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 01/04/2013
Sound Formats:
Ratio: 16:9
Subtitles:
Catalogue Number: OABD7119D
Conductor(s):
Robin Ticciati
Robin Ticciati
Orchestra(s):
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala
Artist(s):
John Graham-Hall; Susan Gritton; Christopher Purves; Felicity Palmer; Peter Hoare; Catherine Wyn-Rogers; Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala; Robin Ticciati
John Graham-Hall; Susan Gritton; Christopher Purves; Felicity Palmer; Peter Hoare; Catherine Wyn-Rogers; Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala; Robin Ticciati
"... the thrilling baton-wielding of Robin Ticciati, whose enthusiastic yet disciplined conducting earns him a standing ovation from a La Scala Orchestra that emerges as polished, urgent and surprisingly at ease with Britten’s score. There is strength from first to last among the soloists, three of whom (Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Christopher Gillett and Stephen Richardson) would go on to repeat their roles this year at the centenary staging of “Grimes on the (Aldeburgh) Beach”. As Grimes, John Graham-Hall is every bit as intense as he was in ENO’s recent revival of Britten’s Death in Venice." (Classical Source)
"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)
"... 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)
"[Grimes is] no tough fisherman but a seedy inadequate cringing from the local teenagers, and suggesting all too contemporary abuse problems. John Graham-Hall evokes his contorted inner life superbly, but with leaner tones than competitors on video." (BBC Music Magazine ★★★)
"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)
"... 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)
"[Grimes is] no tough fisherman but a seedy inadequate cringing from the local teenagers, and suggesting all too contemporary abuse problems. John Graham-Hall evokes his contorted inner life superbly, but with leaner tones than competitors on video." (BBC Music Magazine ★★★)
John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes); Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford); Christopher Purves (Captain Balstrode); Felicity Palmer (Auntie); Peter Hoare (Bob Boles); Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley)
The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for Peter Grimes at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten’s operas on the lyric stages of Italy. A top British cast was marshalled by the baton of Robin Ticciati. Richard Jones’s production focuses on the fisherman as the outsider in a brutal and brutalised 1980s society, cut off by mutual suspicion and misunderstanding: an unforgettable production of a 20th-century operatic masterpiece that never loses its power. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true Surround Sound.
DVD
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 01/04/2013
Sound Formats:
Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic
Subtitles:
Catalogue Number: OA1103D
BLU-RAY
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 01/04/2013
Sound Formats:
Ratio: 16:9
Subtitles:
Catalogue Number: OABD7119D
Conductor(s):
Robin Ticciati
Robin Ticciati
Orchestra(s):
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala
Artist(s):
John Graham-Hall; Susan Gritton; Christopher Purves; Felicity Palmer; Peter Hoare; Catherine Wyn-Rogers; Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala; Robin Ticciati
John Graham-Hall; Susan Gritton; Christopher Purves; Felicity Palmer; Peter Hoare; Catherine Wyn-Rogers; Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala; Robin Ticciati
"... the thrilling baton-wielding of Robin Ticciati, whose enthusiastic yet disciplined conducting earns him a standing ovation from a La Scala Orchestra that emerges as polished, urgent and surprisingly at ease with Britten’s score. There is strength from first to last among the soloists, three of whom (Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Christopher Gillett and Stephen Richardson) would go on to repeat their roles this year at the centenary staging of “Grimes on the (Aldeburgh) Beach”. As Grimes, John Graham-Hall is every bit as intense as he was in ENO’s recent revival of Britten’s Death in Venice." (Classical Source)
"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)
"... 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)
"[Grimes is] no tough fisherman but a seedy inadequate cringing from the local teenagers, and suggesting all too contemporary abuse problems. John Graham-Hall evokes his contorted inner life superbly, but with leaner tones than competitors on video." (BBC Music Magazine ★★★)
"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)
"... 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)
"[Grimes is] no tough fisherman but a seedy inadequate cringing from the local teenagers, and suggesting all too contemporary abuse problems. John Graham-Hall evokes his contorted inner life superbly, but with leaner tones than competitors on video." (BBC Music Magazine ★★★)
