Peter Grimes

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Peter Grimes

opera by Britten

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…observation to contrast the opera Peter Grimes (1945) by Benjamin Britten (an English Protestant) with La traviata (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi (an Italian Catholic). Greeley argues that while in Britten’s work, “there is no salvation for anyone at the end of the opera, no hint of hope,” in Verdi’s work…
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…observation to contrast the opera Peter Grimes (1945) by Benjamin Britten (an English Protestant) with La traviata (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi (an Italian Catholic). Greeley argues that while in Britten’s work, “there is no salvation for anyone at the end of the opera, no hint of hope,” in Verdi’s work…
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Benjamin Britten
…the composition of his opera Peter Grimes (1945; libretto by M. Slater after George Crabbe’s poem The Borough), which placed Britten in the forefront of 20th-century composers of opera. His later operas include The Rape of Lucretia (1946); the comic Albert Herring (1947); Billy Budd (1951; after Herman Melville); Gloriana…
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…the composition of his opera Peter Grimes (1945; libretto by M. Slater after George Crabbe’s poem The Borough), which placed Britten in the forefront of 20th-century composers of opera. His later operas include The Rape of Lucretia (1946); the comic Albert Herring (1947); Billy Budd (1951; after Herman Melville); Gloriana…
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