Stuart Skelton: A Life of Grimes

Stuart Skelton's Peter Grimes electrified audiences last year. Now he's back in London to bring another troubled soul to lifePeter Grimes is very much English National Opera's own opera. It was the work the company (in its previous guise, as Sadler's Wells Opera) chose to recommence operations with at the end of the second world war, thereby re-establishing both Benjamin Britten and English opera on the international map. Today, it is hailed by many as simply England's greatest opera. And yet it...

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