Name: Peter Grimes
Start: 2023-05-13
End: 2023-05-13
Location: Opernhaus

Organization

Dramaturge

Marlene Hahn

Conductor

Christoph Gedschold

Stage director

Kay Link

Set designer

Dirk Becker

Costume designer

Silke Wey

Singer

Tenor

Brenden Gunnell

Peter Grimes

Baritone

Tuomas Pursio

Balstrode

Contralto

Karin Lovelius

Auntie

Sven Hjörleifsson

Bob Boles

Dan Karlström

Álvaro Zambrano

Rev. Horace Adams

Jonathan Michie

Ned Keene

Mezzo-soprano

Kathrin Göring

Mrs (Nabob) Sedley

Lighting designer

Michael Röger

Kara McKechnie

Chorus master

Thomas Eitler-de Lint

Soprano

Martina Welschenbach

Ellen Orford

Mathias Hausmann

Dalia Besprozvany

Niece I

Bass

Randall Jakobsh

Swallow

Einar Dagur Jónsson

Jessica Leao

Niece II

Marcel Brunner

Hobson

Video designer

Tilmann König

Wiard Witholt

Gewandhaus Leipzig

Choreographer

Oliver Preiß

Oper Leipzig

Stefan Jennerich

Orchestra

Gewandhausorchester

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Chor der Oper Leipzig

English

Leipzig

Germany

Opernhaus

Peter Grimes Britten

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Private

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Approved

Insights into the main piano rehearsal. In his fishing village somewhere on the east coast of England, Peter Grimes is the outsider, but is he also a killer? In his opera, Benjamin Britten draws the psychogram of a village community as well as that of a man who, under the magnifying glass of provincial narrowness, perishes from the never-ending slander and defamation of his fellow human beings.

A young man dies in a small English fishing village. A tragic accident at sea? The village assumes that the outsider, the fisherman Peter Grimes, is to blame and in whose service the dead man was, and gangs up against him ever more closely: Is Peter Grimes a murderer? He is acquitted in court, and yet there is no break in the heat in the inn. It seems only a matter of a few hours, because: »Look, a storm is coming! Like a pack of wild beasts!”

Benjamin Britten, who sets the story in his home region, lets the emotional loneliness and the search to find a place in society sound in a touching way, before a few moments later the sea gently washes around us and lures us further and further out until it is able to pull us down into the abysses of the soul: "What harbor will receive me, far away from the wild tide, far away from the storm?"

In einem kleinen englischen Fischerdorf stirbt ein junger Mann. Ein tragischer Unfall auf hoher See? Das Dorf vermutet die Schuld beim Außenseiter, dem Fischer Peter Grimes, in dessen Diensten der Tote stand, und rottet sich immer geschlossener gegen ihn zusammen: Ist Peter Grimes ein Mörder ? Vor Gericht wird er freigesprochen, und dennoch erfährt die Erhitzung im Wirtshaus keine Pause. Es scheint nur mehr eine Frage von wenigen Stunden zu sein, denn: »Seht, ein Sturm kommt! Wie ein Rudel wilder Tiere!«

Benjamin Britten, der die Geschichte in seiner Heimatregion ansiedelt, lässt die seelische Einsamkeit sowie die Suche, einen Platz in der Gesellschaft zu finden, in berührender Art und Weise ertönen, bevor uns wenige Augenblicke später das Meer sanft umspült und immer weiter hinauslockt, bis es uns in die seelischen Abgründe hinunterzuziehen vermag: »Welch Hafen nimmt mich auf, weit ab von wilder Flut, weit ab vom Sturm?«

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Peter Grimes by Britten, Sat 13 May 2023, From (2023/2023), Directed by Kay Link,, Conductor Christoph Gedschold, Opernhaus, Leipzig, Germany

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