Season 2023/2024

Peter Grimes

Music Benjamin Britten

Opera in one prologue and three acts

Libretto by Montagu Slater after the George Crabbe’s poem, The Borough

World Premiere Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 7 June 1945

First performed at Teatro Costanzi 2 May 1961

Length: 3 hours and a half approx. : I Act 60' - intermission 25' - II Act 50 - intermission 25' - Act III 46'

Michele Mariotti

Deborah Warner

CHORUS MASTER Ciro Visco

SET DESIGNER Michael Levine

COSTUME DESIGNER Luis F. Carvalho

LIGHTING DESIGNER Peter Mumford

CHOREOGRAPHER Kim Brandstrup

VIDEO Justin Nardella

CAST

Peter Grimes Allan Clayton

Ellen Orford Sophie Bevan

Capitan Balstrode Simon Keenlyside

Swallow Clive Bayley

Ned Keene Jacques Imbrailo

Auntie Catherine Wyn-Rogers

Mrs. Sedley Clare Presland

Bob Boles John Graham-Hall

First niece Jennifer France

Second niece Natalia Labourdette

Rev. Horace Adams James Gilchrist

Hobson Stephen Richardson

A fisherman Daniele Massimi

Fisher-woman Michela Nardella

A lawyer Leonardo Trinciarelli

Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Orchestra and Chorus

A Teatro dell’Opera di Roma new production

In coproduction with Teatro Real Madrid, Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, and Opéra National de Paris