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Peter Grimes Posters and Prints

Peter Grimes Posters and Prints

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About The Poster:

  • Premium Print Quality
  • Perfect Size: multiple dimensions 
    • 12"x18" inch (30x45 cm)
    • 16"x24" inch (40x60 cm)
    • 24"x36" inch (60x90 cm)
  • Easy to Display

About The Movie:

This 1969 BBC production is about as close as we can get to a definitive version of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES, one of the greatest 20th Century operas. The story of the individualistic fisherman hounded by his neighbors who believe he murdered his young apprentice packs tremendous emotional power. The compelling narrative is richly enhanced by its subtexts: the lone outsider versus the conformist mob; the dreamer of improbable dreams that lead to tragedy; the artist (dreamer) versus the Philistines, and the homosexual overtones of Grimes' abuse of his child apprentices. Britten is conductor of his work and tenor Peter Pears is Grimes, 25 years after he created the title role at the opera's premiere. As the widow Ellen Orford, soprano Heather Harper is magnificent. Best of all, the sea is an ever-present actor here. When we don't see it in the background it exerts its presence in the abundant visual references to nets, barrels, and other paraphernalia of a seaside fishing village.

Tags: 1969, Peter Grimes, John Culshaw, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Heather Harper, Bryan Drake, Peter Pears, BBC, United Kingdom, David Myerscough-Jones, Montagu Slater,