NEW YORK — Anthony Dean Griffey stood on the vast stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, leaning ever so slightly to his right, looking out to the auditorium and beyond it to the sea. Condemned by the ...
Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” now one of my favorite operas, had to grow on me. The first time I heard the full score I didn’t like it much. I knew the Sea Interludes, the orchestral music played between ...