'Old Joes has gone Fishing' from Peter Grimes, Op. 33 by Benjamin Britten. (Beat: 7/4)

Well, of course everything that matters here is in the Choir and Peter: the orchestra is just the ostinato upon which the voices do their thing, the real drama of the scene!

What production?

Felicity Palmer truly owns this role - spectacular performance!

One of the great opera choruses. Heard it once live and has stayed with me forever.

I’m I the only person who doesn’t like this opera, they could’ve named this anything but they called it “Peter”?! That’s a persons name not an opera’s smh 😤

a little more spinto on the top than I would like, but the notes are there. Just gets a little thin and pressed.

Horrible and unstable voice.

What does "you know has gone fishing" mean?

Brilliant opera

Who is the tenor here? Quite impressive both vocally and dramatically.

2:07 - TFW you realize you have just completely let your freak flag fly in front of the whole town-one of the greatest facial expressions I've ever seen in an opera production! :-P I agree with the others here who don't like how stolid and stagnant the staging is, changing one of the most electrically terrifying scenes in opera into what looks like an Outraged from Tunbridge Wells crowd (some of them even have hands clasped or, even worse, in their pockets!!!), but DAMN Felicity Palmer is EVERYTHING.

Felicity Palmer is the quintessential Mrs. Sedley. The chorus responds in top form in this great scene from Peter Grimes. It has all the great markings of the MET's great and gifted Chorus Master Donald Palumbo.

HOOKED!

This scene is a pinnacle of Western civilization.....great diction compared to most I've heard....stage instructions are for the whole ensemble to go to the end of the stage to scream at audience on the B flat "Peter Grimes which is often not done so quickly and metronomic as here....I feel it could be more broad for drama...vocal glissando at 4:06 was nicely audible.....yes needs more staging but maybe some of the diction might have been lost....I've seen productions where guys have guns.....

THIS is all TOO Crazy CRAZY GREAT.

Great performance and consummate musicianship, but barely a staging.

It's magnificent. Runnicles conducting. The Met orchestra and chorus. The silences! Absolutely chilling.

Anyone know where Old Joe has gone?

i really love that

“This mournful aria happens after Ellen and Captain Balstrode have found the silk outfit that she made for Peter’s boy apprentice washed up on shore... They know that this means that the boy is likely dead, and that the community will blame Peter for it....” From a scene summary found online, but so much more to it than this, in that Ellen’s discovery will essentially condemn Peter Grimes, wrongly, to his death, as he has already suffered from false accusations in the community. “And dreamt that only by wishing I could bring some silk into their lives...” What a transcendent performance, riveting and rapt ... that face of hers, that compassionate expression so perfectly suited to Britten’s dark vision, to this particular moment, THE aria of arias and melody on this cold winter day on my breath since I woke 13.i.2019

Prog Opera?

What's this opera called?

Oh let's line them all up at the ramp just standing there, so that it is easier for the conductor to hold everything together...

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Felicity Palmer incredible as Mrs Sedley. She spits her words with true venom as she works the borough into a frenzy. Phenomenal production of Britten's masterpiece. Just ordered the dvd of complete Opera. Can't wait till it arrives.

Can you post the mad scene from this production?