An opera in three acts and a prologue derived from the poem of George Crabbe
Scene: The Borough, a small fishing town on the East Coast about 1830.
Prologue: a Court Room in the Moot Hall.
Act 1, Scene 1: The Borough, a few days later
Scene 2: inside The Boar, the same evening
9.8* Interval of about 4 minutes
Act 2, Scene 1: The Borough, some weeks later
Scene 2: Grimes's hut
Children from Leiston Modern School
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader John Georgiadis
Conducted by Benjamin Britten
The moving and powerful tragedy of an East Anglian fisherman, whose uncompromising independence leads to disaster.

(Elizabeth Bainbridge appears by arrangement with the General Administrator, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Ann Robson and David Bowman by arrangement with Sadler's Wells)
Recorded at The Maltings, Snape; a BBCtv production in conjunction with NET New York and CBC Toronto
(Colour)