The bleak, enclosed world of a fishing village provides the backdrop for the story of fisherman Peter Grimes and his uneasy relationship with the other inhabitants. Following the death of Grimes's ...

There needs to be a bigger word than “triumph” to describe the Aspen Music Festival’s accomplishment with “Peter Grimes.” Benjamin Britten’s operatic masterpiece took over the music tent Saturday ...

Britten's opera tells of fisherman Peter Grimes, who becomes an outcast after his apprentice dies; as he takes on another apprentice, suspicion from the villagers and his own guilt lead to tragedy.