
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Franz Welser-Most conducts the Zurich Opera House in this version of Benjamin Britten&s opera In 1830 introverted fisherman Peter Grimes plies his trade on the bleak East England coast fitting awkwardly with the tight-knit & pious community around him After he loses an apprentice at sea the villagers& uneasiness towards him turns inexorably to wrath with only the widowed schoolmistress Ellen Orford offering him support