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

app. by John Hale
A talk prompted by Dr. C. P. Brand 's book Italy and the English Romantics.

Act 2
Scene 1: The village street and beach: a fine sunny morning
Scene 2: Peter Grimes's hut, an upturned boat: later the same morning

Introduced by the author
Read by Anthony Jacobs
Martina Mayne and Anthony White

Acr 3
Scene 1: The village street and beach: a few nights later
Scene 2: The same: some hours later

A topical programme on the arts, literature, and entertainment including:

Christopher Salmon on Tennessee Williams's play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

H. G. Whiteman on Graham Greene's Play The Potting Shed