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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 55 - Britten, 'Peter Grimes'
Performance Date24 August 2012
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersStuart Skelton - Peter Grimes,
Amanda Roocroft - Ellen Orford,
Iain Paterson - Captain Balstrode,
Rebecca de Pont Davies - Auntie,
Matthew Best - Swallow,
Leigh Melrose - Ned Keene,
Michael Colvin - Bob Boles,
Felicity Palmer - Mrs Sedley
Gillian Ramm - First Niece,
Mairéad Buicke - Second Niece,
Darren Jeffery - Hobson,
Stuart Kale - Rev Horace Adams,
Jacob Mason-White - John Grimes's new apprentice
Orchestra or BandENO Orchestra
ChoirsENO Chorus
ConductorsEdward Gardner
Set List'Peter Grimes' (concert performance), Britten
Performance NotesFirst staged a month after VE Day, Britten’s searing psychological drama set in a claustrophobic Suffolk fishing community was the critical and popular success that effectively established a new kind of English operatic tradition.

ENO has kept the opera at the heart of its repertoire and tonight’s concert performance is based on a sold-out production hailed as a ‘superb company achievement’ on its first outing in 2009. Australian tenor Stuart Skelton once again heads the cast with his remarkable, multifaceted portrayal of the disturbed outsider.

There will be two intervals of 20 minutes.

Programme include a loose note stating change in performers: 'Matthew Best, the bass-baritone advertised to sing the role of Swallow, has had to withdraw. The BBC Proms is very grateful to the baritone Mark Richardson for taking his place tonight at very short notice.'

Broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/113),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2012/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/113BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 55 - Britten, 'Peter Grimes'24 August 2012
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work7673BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1279English National Opera (ENO); c1889-; English opera company
DS/UK/916Gardener; Edward (1974 -); OBE; British conductor
DS/UK/1280Skelton; Stuart (1968-); Australian tenor
DS/UK/1281Roocroft; Amanda (1966-); English soprano
DS/UK/1282Paterson; Iain (1973-); Scottish baritone
DS/UK/1283Davies; Rebecca de Pont (fl 2003-2012); Dutch mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/867Best; Matthew (fl 1980s-); English opera singer
DS/UK/1153Melrose; Leigh (fl 2012); English baritone
DS/UK/1284Colvin; Michael (fl 2011-2012); English tenor
DS/UK/1164Palmer; Dame; Felicity Joan (1944-); CBE; English mezzo-soprano and music professor
DS/UK/1285Ramm; Gillian (fl 2004-2012); Australian soprano
DS/UK/1286Buicke; Mairead (1981-); Irish soprano
DS/UK/1287Jeffery; Darren (fl 2012-); English tenor
DS/UK/1288Kale; Stuart (fl 1992-2012); English opera singer
DS/UK/1289White; Jacob Mason- (fl 2012); British tenor
DS/UK/5593Gardner; Edward (1974-); OBE; English conductor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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