Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes

by Philip Brett

Book Overview

Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe was a milestone in operatic history as well as in British music. But the origins of the work lie in the United States, where Britten and his friend Peter Pears (the first Grimes) spent the years 1939-42. In 1941 they read an evocative essay by the novelist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521297168
• ISBN13: 9780521297165
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"