26th October

Concert will begin at 17:03 hours GMT

Britten's 'Peter Grimes' with Savage, van Oostrum, Melrose and Rasker from Amsterdam

Britten's 'Peter Grimes' is an opera 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.

Performers: Issachah Savage: Peter Grimes. Johanni van Oostrum: Ellen Orford. Leigh Melrose: Captain Balstrode. Helena Rasker: Auntie. Lucas van Lierop: Bob Boles. James Platt: Swallow. Claire Barnett-Jones: Mrs. Sedley. Marcel Reijans: Rev. Horace Adams. Will Liverman: Ned Keene. Sam Carl: Hobson.

Dutch National Opera Choir. Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Lorenzo Viotti.

Recorded 18 October.