Tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones gives a heroic performance in the title role
September 22, 2023 2:41 pmis a great opera with a subtext of perennial relevance. The titular character is a fisherman mistrusted as an outsider by his Suffolk village community: rumour has it that he’s murdered an apprentice. Britten and his librettists said their opera’s message – premiered in 1945 – was pacifism, but their real message was a tormented plea for sexual toleranceBritten had a lifelong relationship with the tenor Peter Pears, and at that time, being gay could land you in jail.
The work demands a commensurately great staging, and it has had two of those. In 2013, director Tim Albery realised it in the very place whence Britten had drawn his inspiration, on the . A year later, Deborah Warner staged a Covent Garden production in which Aldeburgh became an impoverished, run-down fishing community such as you might find on the East Coast of England today., whose own version by David Alden is now revived. And it’s good to report that he has now elaborated his production in a way which powerfully serves the drama – we now have a third standout rendition.
The sets are severely stylised, there’s not a boat in sight, and the townspeople look more like a bourgeoisie than fisherfolk. Where Warner’s focus was sociological, Alden’s eye is on what psychological revelations he can mine from the text.
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