BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Radio 3 Live in Concert

Performances & Events

Music: Classical

Presenting exciting live musical events from all over the world

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from Snape Maltings

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from Snape Maltings: Episode 1: Peter Grimes - Act 1

Music: Classical: Opera

Peter Grimes - Act 1

Episode 1

Episode 1: Peter Grimes - Act 1

Live from Snape Maltings

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Live from Snape Maltings, Peter Grimes - Act 1

From the opening night of the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival, Act 1 of Britten's Peter Grimes.

Live from the opening night of the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival, Act 1 of Britten's opera Peter Grimes. Steuart Bedford conducts the Britten-Pears Orchestra with Alan Oke as Grimes.

Louise Fryer presents live from Snape Maltings at the opening night of the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival. In festival-founder Benjamin Britten's centenary year, the festival opens with a concert-hall performance of Britten's masterpiece Peter Grimes. Britten expert Steuart Bedford conducts the Britten-Pears Orchestra and The Chorus of Opera North and the Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Alan Oke in the title role.

7.15pm
Radio 3 Opera Guide to Peter Grimes - with Britten experts Paul Kildea and Philip Reed and soprano Dame Josephine Barstow.


7.30pm
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes

Steuart Bedford conductor
James Holmes head of music & assistant conductor
Anthony Kraus chorus master

Peter Grimes ..... Alan Oke
Ellen Orford ..... Giselle Allen
Captain Balstrode ..... David Kempster 
Auntie ..... Gaynor Keeble 
First Niece ..... Lexi Hutton 
Second Niece ..... Charmian Bedford
Bob Boles ..... Robert Murray 
Swallow ..... Henry Waddington
Mrs Sedley ..... Catherine Wyn-Rogers 
Rev Horace Adams ..... Christopher Gillett
Ned Keene ..... Charles Rice
Hobson ..... Stephen Richardson

The Chorus of Opera North with the Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Britten-Pears Orchestra.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

A concert-hall performance of Britten's operatic masterpiece Peter Grimes

From the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival, celebrating the centenary year of the even's founder, a concert-hall performance of the operatic masterpiece Peter Grimes

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Radio 3 Live in Concert

Live from Snape Maltings

Episode 1: Peter Grimes - Act 1

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3