This varied Season comes to a close with the emblematic European opera, Peter Grimes, by Benjamin Britten. It is to be staged according to the adapted version that the Teatro Di San Carlo in Naples did for the production carried out for the Teatro Verdi de Trieste. The maestro Pedro Halffter is at the helm of the music leading the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra.

With Set Design by Sergio D’Osmo and Costume Design by Madeleine Boyd, and a cast of first degree actors, this opera is considered by many to be one of the best of the XX Century, and even the best English opera written since Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, nearly three hundred years previously.

Peter Grimes, a dark-souled English fisherman from the beginning of the XIX Century, feels himself to be marginalized and blamed by the rest of the townsfolk who are unable to accept him for who he is. Due to the townsfolk’s attitude, Peter Grimes becomes more and more solitary and as a result, the people will look for any excuse to sentence him. The pressure carried out by the society ends up being so traumatic and oppressive that the fisherman commits suicide. Peace thus returns to the Borough as if nothing has happened, once the differentiating element has been removed.

The two main ideas in this opera are on the one hand the portrait depicted of men and women whose livelihood depends on the sea and on the other hand how cruel a society can be when faced with something that does not adapt to their rules.