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Peter Grimes

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Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes," in George Crabbe's book The Borough. [1]

95 relations: Alan Oke, Alan Opie, Aldeburgh, Aldeburgh Festival, Amanda Roocroft, Andrew Davis (conductor), Anthony Dean Griffey, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Anthony Tommasini, Apothecary, Baritone, Bass (voice type), Ben Heppner, Benjamin Britten, Bernard Haitink, Bryan Drake, Capstan (nautical), Chandos Records, Christopher Purves, Christopher Ventris, City of London Sinfonia, Claire Watson, Colin Davis, Contralto, Coroner, David Atherton, Decca Records, Donald Runnicles, E. M. Forster, Edith Coates, Elizabeth Bainbridge, EMI Classics, Emily Magee, English National Opera, Escondido, California, Felicity Lott, Felicity Palmer, Franz Welser-Möst, George Crabbe, Heather Harper, Inquest, James Pease, Joan Cross, John Tyrrell (musicologist), Jon Vickers, Jonathan Summers, Karl Rankl, La bohème, La Scala, ..., Leonard Bernstein, Libretto, List of Cambridge Companions to Music, London Symphony Orchestra, Madama Butterfly, Methodism, Metropolitan Opera, Mezzo-soprano, Montagu Slater, Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), Opus number, Owen Brannigan, Passacaglia, Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano), Patricia Racette, Paul Bunyan (operetta), Pederasty, Peter Pears, Philip Langridge, Philips, Reginald Goodall, Richard Hickox, Robin Ticciati, Roderick Jones (baritone), Royal Opera House, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Serge Koussevitzky, Soprano, Stanley Sadie, Suffolk, Susan Gritton, Tanglewood, Tenor, The Borough (George Crabbe poem), The Listener (magazine), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Observer, Thomas Allen (baritone), Tuba, Tyrone Guthrie, Violence against LGBT people, Voice type, William Glock, Workhouse, Zurich Opera. Expand index (45 more) »

Alan Oke

Alan Oke is a British tenor.

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Alan Opie

Alan Opie OBE (born 22 March 1945 in Redruth) is a Cornish baritone, primarily known as an opera singer.

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Aldeburgh

Aldeburgh is a coastal town in the English county of Suffolk.

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Aldeburgh Festival

The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music.

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Amanda Roocroft

Amanda Jane Roocroft (born 9 February 1966) is an English operatic soprano, who in the course of a 25-year career has sung leading roles in the opera houses of Europe and North America.

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Andrew Davis (conductor)

Sir Andrew Frank Davis (born 2 February 1944) is an English conductor.

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Anthony Dean Griffey

Anthony Dean Griffey (born February 12 in High Point, North Carolina) is an American opera tenor.

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Anthony Michaels-Moore

Anthony Michaels-Moore (born 8 April 1957) is an English operatic baritone and the first British winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition (Philadelphia, 1985).

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Anthony Rolfe Johnson

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (5 November 1940 – 21 July 2010) was an English operatic tenor.

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Anthony Tommasini

Anthony "Tony" Tommasini (born 1948) is chief music critic for The New York Times, and has authored three books.

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Apothecary

Apothecary is one term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica to physicians, surgeons, and patients.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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Bass (voice type)

A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.

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Ben Heppner

Thomas Bernard (Ben) Heppner, CC (born January 14, 1956) is a Canadian tenor and broadcaster, now retired from singing, who specialized in opera and other classical works for voice.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Bernard Haitink

Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (born 4 March 1929) is a Dutch conductor.

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Bryan Drake

Bryan Ernest Hare Drake (7 October 192525 December 2001) was a New Zealand-born baritone who became particularly associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.

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Capstan (nautical)

A capstan is a vertical-axled rotating machine developed for use on sailing ships to multiply the pulling force of seamen when hauling ropes, cables, and hawsers.

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Chandos Records

Chandos Records is a British independent classical music recording company based in Colchester.

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Christopher Purves

Christopher Purves (born in Cambridge) is an English bass-baritone.

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Christopher Ventris

Christopher Ventris, born 1965, in London, is a British tenor.

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City of London Sinfonia

City of London Sinfonia (CLS) is an English chamber orchestra based in London.

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Claire Watson

Claire Watson (née McLamore) (February 3, 1927 – July 16, 1986) was an American soprano, particularly associated with Mozart and Richard Strauss roles.

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Colin Davis

Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959.

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Contralto

A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.

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Coroner

A coroner is a person whose standard role is to confirm and certify the death of an individual within a jurisdiction.

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David Atherton

David Atherton OBE, (born 3 January 1944) is an English conductor and co-founder of the London Sinfonietta.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Donald Runnicles

Donald Cameron Runnicles, OBE (born 16 November 1954, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish conductor.

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E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.

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Edith Coates

Edith Coates OBE (31 May 1908 – 7 January 1983) was an English operatic mezzo-soprano.

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Elizabeth Bainbridge

Elizabeth Bainbridge (born 28 March 1930) is a retired English opera singer.

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EMI Classics

EMI Classics was a record label founded by EMI in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed classical music releases.

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Emily Magee

Emily Magee (born October 31, 1965) is an American operatic soprano.

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English National Opera

English National Opera (ENO) is an opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St. Martin's Lane.

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Escondido, California

Escondido is a city located in San Diego County's North County region, northeast of Downtown San Diego, California.

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Felicity Lott

Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, (born 8 May 1947) is an English soprano.

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Felicity Palmer

Dame Felicity Joan Palmer, DBE (born 6 April 1944), is an English mezzo-soprano and music professor.

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Franz Welser-Möst

Franz Leopold Maria Möst (born 16 August 1960), known professionally as Franz Welser-Möst, is an Austrian conductor.

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George Crabbe

George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman.

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Heather Harper

Heather Harper CBE (born 8 May 1930) is an operatic soprano from Northern Ireland.

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Inquest

An inquest is a judicial inquiry in common law jurisdictions, particularly one held to determine the cause of a person's death.

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James Pease

James Pease (Indianapolis, 9 January 1916 – New York, 26 April 1967)“Pease, James” in Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians, ed.

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Joan Cross

Joan Cross (7 September 1900 – 12 December 1993) was an English soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.

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John Tyrrell (musicologist)

John Tyrrell (born 1942) is a British musicologist.

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Jon Vickers

Jonathan Stewart Vickers, (October 29, 1926 – July 10, 2015), known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a Canadian heldentenor.

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Jonathan Summers

Jonathan Summers (born 2 October 1946) is an Australian operatic baritone.

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Karl Rankl

Karl Rankl (1 October 1898 – 6 September 1968) was a British conductor and composer who was of Austrian birth.

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La bohème

La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto (act).

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La Scala

La Scala (abbreviation in Italian language for the official name Teatro alla Scala) is an opera house in Milan, Italy.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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List of Cambridge Companions to Music

The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.

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Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly (Madam Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Montagu Slater

Charles Montagu Slater (23 September 1902 – 19 December 1956) was an English poet, novelist, playwright and librettist.

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Norman Bailey (bass-baritone)

Norman Stanley Bailey CBE (born 23 March 1933 in Birmingham, United Kingdom) is an operatic bass-baritone who emigrated to South Africa with his parents after the Second World War.

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Opus number

In musical composition, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's production.

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Owen Brannigan

Owen Brannigan OBE (10 March 19089 May 1973) was an English bass, known in opera for buffo roles and in concert for a wide range of solo parts in music ranging from Henry Purcell to Michael Tippett.

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Passacaglia

The passacaglia is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used today by composers.

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Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano)

Patricia Payne is an operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto from New Zealand, a member of London's Royal Opera House who made an international career.

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Patricia Racette

Patricia Lynn Racette (born 1965) is an American operatic soprano.

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Paul Bunyan (operetta)

Paul Bunyan, Op 17, is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups.

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Pederasty

Pederasty or paederasty is a (usually erotic) homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or adolescent male.

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Peter Pears

Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor.

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Philip Langridge

Philip Gordon Langridge CBE (16 December 1939 – 5 March 2010) was an English tenor, considered to be among the foremost exponents of English opera and oratorio.

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Philips

Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips, stylized as PHILIPS) is a Dutch multinational technology company headquartered in Amsterdam currently focused in the area of healthcare.

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Reginald Goodall

Sir Reginald Goodall (13 July 1901 – 5 May 1990) was an English fascist, singing coach and conductor noted for his performances of the operas of Richard Wagner and for conducting the premieres of several operas by Benjamin Britten.

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Richard Hickox

Richard Sidney Hickox, CBE (5 March 1948 – 23 November 2008) was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.

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Robin Ticciati

Robin Ticciati (born 16 April 1983 in London) is a British conductor of Italian ancestry.

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Roderick Jones (baritone)

Roderick Jones (2 June 1910 – 16 September 1992) was a Welsh opera singer who sang leading baritone roles with the Sadlers Wells Opera Company and the Welsh National Opera during the late 1940s and 1950s.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Sadler's Wells Theatre

Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue in Clerkenwell, London, England located on Rosebery Avenue.

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Serge Koussevitzky

Serge Alexandrovich KoussevitzkyKoussevitzky's original Russian forename is usually transliterated into English as either "Sergei" or "Sergey"; however, he himself adopted the French spelling "Serge", using it in his signature.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Stanley Sadie

Stanley John Sadie, CBE (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Susan Gritton

Susan Gritton (born 31 August 1965) is an English operatic soprano.

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Tanglewood

Tanglewood is a music venue in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.

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Tenor

Tenor is a type of classical male singing voice, whose vocal range is normally the highest male voice type, which lies between the baritone and countertenor voice types.

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The Borough (George Crabbe poem)

The Borough is a collection of poems by George Crabbe published in 1810.

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The Listener (magazine)

The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in January 1929 which ceased publication in 1991.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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Thomas Allen (baritone)

Sir Thomas Boaz Allen (born 10 September 1944) is an English operatic baritone.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Tyrone Guthrie

Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 – 15 May 1971) was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at his family's ancestral home, Annaghmakerrig, near Newbliss in County Monaghan, Ireland.

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Violence against LGBT people

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people can face violence motivated by hateful attitudes towards their sexuality or gender identity.

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Voice type

A voice type classifies a singing voice by vocal range, vocal weight, tessitura, vocal timbre, vocal transition points (passaggia) like breaks and lifts, and vocal register.

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William Glock

Sir William Frederick Glock, CBE (3 May 190828 June 2000) was a British music critic and musical administrator who enlivened Britain's post-war musical life by introducing the Continental avant-garde, notably promoting the career of Pierre Boulez.

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Workhouse

In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment.

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Zurich Opera

Oper Zürich (Zurich Opera) is a Swiss opera company based in Zurich.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grimes

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