Peter Grimes
Ph. Sandrah Steh
From 18 October to 2 November 2023
Benjamin Britten
Opera in a prologue and three acts
Libretto by Montagu Slater
Teatro alla Scala New Production
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus
| Conductor | Simone Young |
| Staging | Robert Carsen |
| Sets and costumes | Gideon Davey |
| Lights | Robert Carsen e Peter van Praet |
| Dramaturgy | Ian Burton |
| Video |
Will Duke |
| Choreography | Rebecca Howell |
CAST |
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|---|---|
| Peter Grimes | Brandon Jovanovich |
| Ellen Orford | Nicole Car |
| Balstrode | Ólafur Sigurdarson |
| Auntie | Margaret Plummer |
| Bob Boles | Michael Colvin |
| Swallow | Peter Rose |
| Mrs. Sedley | Natascha Petrinsky |
| Rev. Horace Adams | Benjamin Hulett |
| Ned Keene | Leigh Melrose |
| Hobson | William Thomas |
Among the greatest triumphs of 20th-century musical theatre, Peter Grimes returns in a new production by Robert Carsen, marking the La Scala debut of Simone Young, a conductor at home in the world’s preeminent theatres who built her reputation as conductor of the Hamburg State Opera. The disturbing story is taken from the narrative poem The Borough, where George Crabbe relates the distorted dynamics of a small community distressed at the death of the cabin boy of a fisherman named Grimes, an isolated and aggressive character interpreted at La Scala by Brandon Jovanovich.
