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Peter Grimes review – Netia Jones’s brutal new production electrifies

In the hands of Gothenburg Opera, Britten’s storm-tossed masterpiece takes psychological horror to the next level

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David Edwards obituary

Other lives: Amateur opera singer with a fine tenor voice who established Bath Opera in 1977

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Allan Clayton: ‘I’m your tortured tenor for hire’

Allan Clayton: ‘I’m your tortured tenor for hire’

His committed performances and expressive voice have made him one of today’s most admired singers. As he prepares for Jephtha at Covent Garden, Allan Clayton ponders creativity, pigeonholes and facial hair

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A hotbed of English radicalism? Auden, Britten and the unsung glory of the Group Theatre

When they weren’t having screaming rows, the members of this overlooked 1930s collective changed the course of cultural history. Why isn’t it better known?

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The week in classical: Picture a day like this; Peter Grimes; Carol Williams: Mad Rush – review

Sparkling musical invention pierces the gloom of George Benjamin’s mysterious new chamber opera; Britten’s masterpiece holds its own at ENO; and one woman, 7,866 pipes and resounding fun

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Peter Grimes review – grim but compelling, Alden’s nightmarish staging returns to Coliseum

Everyone is traumatised in David Alden’s 2009 production of Britten’s opera. With Gwyn Hughes Jones and Elizabeth Llewellyn leading a standout cast, this is an evening of beauty and terror

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The week in classical: Wozzeck; Don Giovanni – Christian Gerhaher and Anja Kampe thrill in five-star Berg

Direction and music are as one in Deborah Warner’s gripping new Royal Opera production, while a fine young cast redeems thoughtful if low-key Mozart

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Mobile operators are expanding their foothold in the insurance market via partnerships as digital insurance still has a low penetration rate and the business can help support customer retention.

An explosive act of violence: why Britten’s Rape of Lucretia speaks to our brutal times

An explosive act of violence: why Britten’s Rape of Lucretia speaks to our brutal times

Britten’s opera is a strange, unsettling and unbearably private piece. Set in ancient Rome and written over 70 years ago, its theme is still all too contemporary, writes the director of a new production

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The week in classical: Peter Grimes; Emerson Quartet; RPO/Petrenko

The week in classical: Peter Grimes; Emerson Quartet; RPO/Petrenko

An all-star production of Britten’s opera thrilled; Soviet-era melancholy flowed through Shostakovich’s quartets; and the RPO rose to their game-changing new conductor

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Peter Grimes review – Compelling, unsettling and ravishingly sung

Peter Grimes review – Compelling, unsettling and ravishingly sung

Deborah Warner’s detailed new production sets Britten’s opera in a decayed coastal town in post-Brexit Britain. Allan Clayton – on top form – leads an outstanding cast; conductor Mark Elder emphasises the score’s beauty and well as its violence

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Peter Grimes at the Royal Opera House review: Deborah Warner’s production is evocative and theatrical

Peter Grimes at the Royal Opera House review: Deborah Warner’s production is evocative and theatrical

The director evokes neglected contemporary estuary towns in her new version of the coastal tragedy

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