Hints and tips:
...Peter Hoare’s horrid Hauptmann and Brindley Sherratt’s sinister Doktor are exquisite villains....
...After his highly charged Peter Grimes last year, Allan Clayton must almost have cast himself in the role....
...Among the supporting cast, Peter Hoare teeters brilliantly on the edge of black comedy as the Captain....
...Let us hope Peter Grimes does not wander on by mistake at later performances....
...The festival has tried productions that are cutely traditional and radically iconoclastic (the much-vilified Peter Sellars staging of 1990) but none of them has stuck....
...There is a firm trio of officers, sung by Thomas Oliemans, David Soar and Peter Kellner....
...Robert Oppenheimer, the “Doctor Atomic” of the title, and the strong cast includes Julia Bullock, Brindley Sherratt and Samuel Sakker. Adams himself conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra....
...But there was a drawback: Peter Sellars’ libretto. In place of narrative, Sellars gives us snail-paced soliloquising....
...“Just because you can answer a question in the classroom, doesn’t mean you can apply it a crisis,” says Peter Brindley, a critical care doctor at the University of Alberta....
...Last, hardly least, Brindley Sherratt grumbled with fine urgency and a Sarastro-worthy basso in the plaints of Trulove Senior. Only one performance remains, Saturday afternoon....
...Brindley Sherratt was the top-quality Sparafucile; the ever-alert Maurizio Benini conducts with 100 per cent Italian verve....
...Is Peter Grimes a self-portrait by Benjamin Britten? Ever since his death in 1976, it has been customary to categorise Britten, like the character of Grimes, as an outsider in society....
...There is fine support from Stephen Gadd’s authoritative Mr Redburn, Peter Gijsbertsen’s callow Novice, David Soar’s staunch Mr Flint, and Jeremy White’s warm-hearted Dansker....
...The librettist, opera producer and long-time Adams collaborator Peter Sellars, does not try to explain the science behind nuclear fission, but even that might have been more intelligible than the artsy patchwork...
...He is out-sung and out-acted by everyone else – Brindley Sherratt’s stage-filling Pimen (pictured above; a Gurnemanz in the making), John Graham-Hall’s Peter Mandelson-like Shuisky, Anna Grevelius’s believably...
...English-language performance suits the home-view format better than audio (Peter Moores Foundation please note), doubly so when you consider how much dross is being hawked about in original-language performances...
...The same spirit imbues Peter Hall’s classic 1985 production, now enjoying its latest revival....
...Peter Jones, the recent chairman of the Tote state-owned betting agency, is made a CBE....
...It is Rocco who comes across as a more important player here, thanks to Brindley Sherratt’s compelling portrayal of a man caught between good and evil....
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