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Arts & Entertainment MET Live: 'Peter Grimes'
By Jordan Zangaro Contributing writer "The Metropolitan Opera: Live in High Definition" continues its unique and astonishing display of breathtaking operas and groundbreaking performances. The next showing to grace the PAC as a part of this exciting experiment will be "Peter Grimes." Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey takes on the complex title role. Riveting Patricia Racette plays Ellen Orford, the woman who refuses to abandon him. Featuring what may be 20th-century opera’s most impressive tenor role, "Peter Grimes" will be an engrossing and haunting theatrical journey. More than 800,000 people attend performances at the Metropolitan Opera during the season, and now millions more throughout the world can experience the most creative and talented artists to step foot on the stage. With the amazing Live in High Definition experiment, 10 cameras are strategically placed all over The Met. Audiences all over the globe can witness not only the performances from a front-row view, but behind-the-scenes footage such as technical operations, arrivals, make-up applications and even personal interviews with the performers. Don’t miss out. In the show, Peter Grimes is questioned at an inquest over the death of his apprentice. The townsfolk make it clear they think Grimes is guilty and deserving of punishment. Although the coroner, Mr. Swallow, determines the boy’s death to be accidental and clears Grimes without a proper trial, he advises Grimes not to get another apprentice. As the court is cleared, the schoolmistress attempts to comfort Grimes as he rages against what he sees at the Borough community’s unwillingness to give him a second chance. Grimes claims to be in desperate need of help to fish, and his friend, the apothecary Ned Keene, finds him a new apprentice from the workhouse. Nobody will volunteer to fetch the boy, until Ellen offers. When Ellen brings the apprentice to Grimes at the pub that evening, he immediately sets off to his hut, despite the fact that the Borough is weathering an ominous storm. Peter Grimes is under investigation for unthinkable transgressions, yet Benjamin Britten’s probing exploration of the nature of guilt and judgment implicates an entire fishing village. The show will take place at the PAC Saturday, March 15 at 1:30 p.m. Tickets will are available at the box office for $15 with a student ID.
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