Organization

Münchner Opernfestspiele

Singer

Tenor

Stuart Skelton

Peter Grimes

Soprano

Rachel Willis-Sørensen

Ellen Orford

Contralto

Claudia Mahnke

Auntie

Lindsay Ohse

Niece I

Emily Pogorelc

Niece II

Baritone

Iain Paterson

Balstrode

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Johnston

Mrs (Nabob) Sedley

Bass

Brindley Sherratt

Swallow

Konstantin Krimmel

Ned Keene

Kevin Conners

Bob Boles

Paul Groves

Rev. Horace Adams

Daniel Noyola

Hobson

Stage director

Stefan Herheim

Conductor

Edward Gardner

Lighting designer

Phoenix

Costume designer

Esther Bialas

Set designer

Silke Bauer

Dramaturge

Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach

Malte Krasting

Chorus master

Stellario Fagone

James Conlon

Jonas Kaufmann

Christopher Purves

Susan Bickley

Sarah Gilford

Sean Michael Plumb

Michael Bauer

Video designer

Torge Møller

Thomas Ebenstein

Bayerische Staatsoper

Others

Kinderchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

Simeon Esper

English

Munich

Germany

Nationaltheater

Peter Grimes Britten

Public

Private

German

Approved

On  6 of March 2022 we celebrate the premiere of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES, directed by Stefan Herheim. Here's an exclusive sneak peek! You can get mor...

Peter Grimes Britten Trailer

"The struggle of the individual against the crowd. The more evil society, the more evil the individual.” was a lifelong theme for Britten. With each turn, the noose tightens until another misfortune seals Grimes' fate. Britten's first major opera is an inexhaustible panorama of interpersonal entanglements, portrayed in the world of simple coastal dwellers whose fugues only hold together poorly. His music penetrates deep into the soul with its sounds for the lonely individual, the unleashed crowd and eternal nature.

Stefan Herheim has been one of the most important opera directors of the present for around two decades. Always feeling from the point of view of the music, he interprets old and new works for our time in performances that are astonishing, visually powerful and exuberantly sensual. The often-described musicality of his performances is not surprising: Stefan Herheim began his career by studying the cello and made his way into opera with his own marionette theatre. Through his studies with Götz Friedrich he received the necessary tools. His long-time comrade-in-arms Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach, a polymath with a doctorate and international university experience, who was significantly involved as a dramaturge in practically all productions, provides much more than just the intellectual basis. Ring des Nibelungen  at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as with the costume designer Esther Bialas, who has previously worked on the productions of The  Tales of Hoffmann  and  La Cenerentola  . As conductor, Edward Gardner completes this management team for the first time. His expertise in musical theater - from London to New York - is equally rich, and his English heritage is just the icing on the cake that makes him the ideal advocate for Benjamin Britten as the most important British composer of the 20th century.

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