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An opera in three acts and a prologue from the poem of George Crabbe
Words by Montagu Slater
Music by Benjamin Britten
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson)
Covent Garden Orchestra (Leader, Charles Taylor)
Conductor, Rafael Kubelik
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
(by arrangement with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Ltd.)
SCENE: The Borough, a small fishing town on the East Coast of England, about 1930
Prologue
The court room at the Moot Hall
Act I
Scene 1: The Borough beach and street: a cold grey morning
Scene 2: Inside 'The Boar': that night

Contributors

Words:
Montagu Slater
Music:
Benjamin Britten
Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Leader:
Charles Taylor
Conductor:
Rafael Kubelik
Peter Grimes, a fisherman:
Peter Pears
Ellen Orford, a widow, schoolmistress of the Borough:
Sylvia Fisher
Captain Balstrode retired merchant skipper:
James Pease
Auntie, landlady of 'The Boar':
Jean Watson
Her Niece, main attraction at 'The Boar':
Joan Carlyle
Her Niece, main attraction at 'The Boar':
Iris Kells
Bob Boles, fisherman and Methodist:
Raymond Nilsson
Swallow, a lawyer:
Owen Brannigan
Mrs Sedley, a widow:
Lauris Elms
The Rector:
John Lanigan
Hobson the carrier:
David Kelly
Ned Keene, apothecary and quack:
Geraint Evans
The Boy, Peter Grimes's new apprentice:
Arthur MacKenzie

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