PETER GRIMES:Britten
Original Air Date: 03/24/1973
Ehrling; Vickers, Amara, Gramm, Kraft, Chookasian
SID.18500637
This is the third of Vickers’ 4 Met Grimes broadcasts. Luckily all have been on Sirius. I find the Colin Davis outings (the first two) sharper in profile, but Vickers’ portrayal is one of the great assumptions. Britten purists are not always so taken, but JV really pushed this opera into the general repertoire in the U.S.