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Peter Grimes (opera, 1945)
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Peter_Grimes_(opera,_1945)
GPTKB entity
Statements (27)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:opera
gptkbp:basedOn
gptkb:George_Crabbe
gptkb:The_Borough_(poem)
gptkbp:composer
gptkb:Benjamin_Britten
gptkbp:firstPerformed
gptkb:Sadler's_Wells_Opera_Company
gptkbp:genre
gptkb:opera
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Peter Grimes (opera, 1945)
gptkbp:language
English
gptkbp:librettist
gptkb:Montagu_Slater
gptkbp:mainCharacter
gptkb:Peter_Grimes
gptkb:Balstrode
gptkb:Ellen_Orford
gptkbp:notableAria
Now the Great Bear and Pleiades
What Harbour Can Embrace Terrible Grief?
gptkbp:notableFeature
Sea Interludes
gptkbp:notableRecording
Decca, 1958, conducted by Benjamin Britten
gptkbp:numberOfActs
3
gptkbp:orchestration
large orchestra
gptkbp:period
20th-century opera
gptkbp:premiereDate
1945-06-07
gptkbp:premiereLocation
gptkb:Sadler's_Wells,_London
gptkbp:publisher
gptkb:Boosey_&_Hawkes
gptkbp:setting
The Borough, Suffolk, England
gptkbp:significance
established Britten as a leading opera composer
gptkbp:subject
fisherman ostracized by his community
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Peter_Grimes_in_Peter_Grimes
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7