Where to Watch Peter Grimes

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Below, you'll find a number of top-tier streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'Peter Grimes' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'Peter Grimes' right now, here are some specifics about the BBC music flick.

Released , 'Peter Grimes' stars Peter Pears, Heather Harper, Bryan Drake, Elizabeth Bainbridge The movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 22 min, and received a user score of (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from experienced users.

What, so now you want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "This 1969 BBC production is about as close as we can get to a definitive version of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES, one of the greatest 20th Century operas. The story of the individualistic fisherman hounded by his neighbors who believe he murdered his young apprentice packs tremendous emotional power. The compelling narrative is richly enhanced by its subtexts: the lone outsider versus the conformist mob; the dreamer of improbable dreams that lead to tragedy; the artist (dreamer) versus the Philistines, and the homosexual overtones of Grimes' abuse of his child apprentices. Britten is conductor of his work and tenor Peter Pears is Grimes, 25 years after he created the title role at the opera's premiere. As the widow Ellen Orford, soprano Heather Harper is magnificent. Best of all, the sea is an ever-present actor here. When we don't see it in the background it exerts its presence in the abundant visual references to nets, barrels, and other paraphernalia of a seaside fishing village." .