Mob scene from Peter Grimes

More from Benjamin Britten's masterpiece. I love how she whips the entire borough into a frenzy.

[@inthedesert2008]

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

[@jacktaggart2489]

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.

[@coraggio93]

❤ I heartily agree about Ms. Palmer. Loved seeing Peter Grimes during lockdown when the Met offered free streams every night for 70 weeks. I had never seen this opera before.

[@petersmith4511]

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.

[@drtmuir]

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

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

Felicity Palmer truly owns this role - spectacular performance!

[@andrewkohler3707]

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.

[@leedshunk]

woa what great singing , i love this opera !!!!

[@hilarykendrick8405]

Brilliant opera

[@peterrieder8180]

i really love that

[@scottishphotographer]

@leedshunk This is John Doyle's production for the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

[@broadwaylover282]

I LOVE this! The only thing I would think of changing would to be smoothing out the "ahh"s at 4:09 because it's supposed to imitate waves.

[@kendaves3841]

HOOKED!

[@joepianograziose3822]

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.....

[@andrewkohler3707]

The climactic "Peter Grimes" has no indication in the score to broaden the tempo, and yet that's what Britten did when he conducted it (he could have bothered to write it in, too). Other productions manage to have movement in this number without sacrificing too much of the sound, so I really don't know why they decided to have such dull staging for this exhilaratingly harrowing number.

[@joepianograziose3822]

@@andrewkohler3707 True , he could have at least put tenuto marks on the score, which any conductor with any musical instincts worth his salt will interpret and insert anyhow

[@flicfan416]

Can you post the mad scene from this production?

[@leedshunk]

where was this recorded ??

[@michaelz-c4178]

What's this opera called?

[@odaiko]

Peter Grimes

[@michaelz-c4178]

Oh okay, makes sense

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

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...

[@andrewkohler3707]

Strong agree-I hate how they just leave in a huff at the end. Compare the hair-raising staging from the Covent Garden, with Patirica Payne as a truly batshit Mrs. Sedley: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4GXZ5SBntKqaNU Equally hair-raising is the BBC's production with Ben himself conducting, and Ann Robson also very good as Mrs. Sedley: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ql7Ye2WVZtl-ec0 All that said, I reiterate what I commented above about how amazing it is when Felicity Palmer realizes at 2:07 that she's just revealed herself to be a total lunatic.

[@andrewkohler3707]

P.S. I'm not sure which character is to Mrs. Sedley's right (our left), but WHY does he have his hands in his pockets?!?! His body language is completely devoid of any tension. And then at the end Mr. Swallow trundles off to speak to the manager.

[@jonathandore7521]

Great performance and consummate musicianship, but barely a staging.

[@johnmanno2052]

Yeah. This scene in particular should be FILLED with movement and direction. And the performance I saw many decades ago at Chicago Lyric had just that. They looked like they were all whipped up for a lynching. Chilling and terrible! Don't quite understand why the director decided to have them just stand there

[@petergrimes417]

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 😤

[@1pureboy1]

Tosca, Boris Godunov, Prince Igor, Turandot, Aida, Don Carlos, Simon Boccanegra, Manon Lescau, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, to name but a few….you obviously don’t know the repertoire.

[@petergrimes417]

Ok but why’d they got to use my name though