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Peter Grimes is the story of a fisherman who battles hard to win the acceptance of the people who inhabit his small fishing village, The Borough, but because of the accidental death of his apprentice out at sea, suspicion and anger hang about him like a cloud. He falls for the town widow, Ellen, and she takes a liking to him too, but he can never accept her kindness, too used is he to people treating him with contempt. For a while, things seem to improve, but the shocking death of a second apprentice seals his fate. He is advised by those few that take pity on him to sail his ship out to sea and sink it, before the murderous mob of the Borough get to him. He does just that. Turned into an opera by Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes became the most significant British opera for 300 years, reigniting Britain`s passion for the art form. It is a quiet, sad and intense piece, with none of the ornamental warbling that we have come to associate with opera. The design is based on one of Peter`s famous lines, which he says just before the second boy dies. It tells of how he wishes to marry Ellen and have a happy life. To me, though, his home would always be the sea.
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