Bergen National Opera and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra collaborate to present a concert performance of Benjamin Britten's great opera Peter Grimes.

OPERA REVOLUTION
Benjamin Britten's opera created a theatrical and musical revolution in England's music - an opera which combined great sweeping orchestral writing with brilliant storytelling and searing vocal lines. Bergen National Opera collaborates with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra to present a concert performance of Peter Grimes with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra's music director Edward Gardner conducting and a spectacular cast of Britten specialist soloists led by great Australian tenor Stuart Skelton.

– A highlight of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. The Guardian

– Another glorious triumph. The Scotsman

– The best Peter Grimes I’ve ever seen. The Spectator

Benjamin Britten / Music
Montagu Slater, from a poem by George Crabbe / Libretto
Edward Gardner / Conductor
Vera Rostin Wexelsen / Stage director
Håkon Matti Skrede / Choirmaster
Stuart Skelton / Peter Grimes
Erin Wall / Ellen Orford
Roderick Williams / Captain Balstrode
Susan Bickley / Auntie
Hanna Husáhr, Vibeke Kristensen / Two nieces
Robert Murray / Bob Boles
Neal Davies / Swallow
Catherine Wyn-Rogers / Mrs Sedley
James Gilchrist / Reverend Horace Adams
Marcus Farnsworth / Ned Keene
Barnaby Rea / Hobson

Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
Edvard Grieg Kor
Bergen Filharmoniske Kor
Collegium Musicum Kor
Students from the Royal Northern College of Music