Music review: Peter Grimes

By The Newsroom
Published 15th Aug 2017, 12:19 BST
Updated 12th Sep 2017, 11:30 BST
Edinburgh International Festival: In what is evolving as the EIF's strongest opera programme in years, Sunday's concert performance of Britten's 1945 masterpiece Peter Grimes, originally conceived for a recent Bergen International Festival, was yet another glorious triumph.

Usher Hall

*****

Calling it a concert performance is to underplay the outline theatrical dimension of the presentation, in which characters and chorus, dressed in a mixed array of workaday clothing, suggestive of the claustrophobic fishing community that is Britten’s “Borough,” found space aplenty to create a potent and absorbing visual spectacle.