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...this work in progress would culminate this week in the Met's first new opera of the year. The new work is Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, and no opera written since the days of Puccini has had so much advance praise...
...Purcell's Steps. In an age when even opera's best friends are calling it decadent, bright young Benjamin Britten's admirers acclaim him as the wonder boy who will restore the glitter to opera's tarnished tiara. In England, which has never produced a composer to match its poets and playwrights, critics call him the likeliest English opera discovery since Henry Purcell composed Dido and Aeneas for a girls' boarding school 250 years...
...composer himself, who at 34 looks like an overworked undergraduate, will not be in the audience when the Met's gold curtains part this week. He will be off on a concert tour of Italy and Holland. A shy fellow, but sure of himself, Britten wasn't worried about how Peter Grimes would fare in Manhattan. Since London first heard Peter Grimes at Sadler's Wells in June 1945, it has been cheered 115 times, in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan, Berlin, Budapest, translated into eight languages, and praised in all of them...
Perhaps, therefore, the future of modern opera lies on the stage and not in the old opera houses, which will still supply the voices and the size and the glamour for Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and their lessers. The composers seem to be aiming in that direction, for Benjamin Britten, as well as Menetti, has written operas for chamber orchestras and small cast. Britten's second, "The Rape of Lueretia," was on the Chicago stage last season. If it lands in a Broadway theatre with success equal to that of "The Medium" it will prove that Meuotti's work is more...
...Reds. Probably the only new opera of the season will be Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, which had its U.S. premiere at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Festival last year. A bigger and brighter premiere-that of Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace-had been promised, but postponed. Leftists scoffed at Manager Edward Johnson's explanation: that no adequate translation could be made in time. They hinted that the Met was showing its political bias. Actually, a translation had been made which pleased the Met, but was rejected by Russian officials in New York. A second...