Covent Garden’s powerful production of"Peter Grimes" pulls no punches, writes Michael White
The seaside town of Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, has a little Catholic church with a delightful garden that gets overlooked by visitors. Though many of them come as pilgrims, they are not there for religion. Aldeburgh’s pilgrims come in search of the composer Benjamin Britten, who lived there, and his opera Peter Grimes, which is set there – on the shingle beach where Grimes, a rough-edged fisherman at odds with the community around him, meets a tragic end.
