Peter Grimes

PROLOGUE

Disc 1

Peter Grimes (Hobson/Swallow/Peter)

You sailed your boat round the coast (Swallow/Peter/Mrs Sedley/Chorus/Hobson/Ellen)

Peter Grimes, I here advise you! (Swallow/Chorus/Hobson/Peter)

The truth ... the pity (Peter/Ellen)

Interlude I: Dawn

ACT 1 Scene 1

Oh hang at open doors the net (Chorus/1st Fisherman/Auntie/Boles/Balstrode/2nd Fisherman/Rector/Nieces/Mrs Sedley/Swallow)

Hi! Give us a hand (Peter/Boles/Balstrode/Ned/Auntie/Hobson)

I have to go from pub to pub (Hobson/Chorus/Ellen/Ned)

Let her among you without fault cast the first stone (Ellen/Hobson/Mrs Sedley/Ned)

Look! The storm cone! (Balstrode/Chorus/Ned/Boles)

And do you prefer the storm

What harbour shelters peace (Peter)

Interlude II: Storm

ACT 1 Scene 2

Past time to close! (Auntie/Mrs Sedley/Balstrode/Boles/Nieces/Fisherman)

We live and let live (Balstrode/Chorus)

Have you heard (Ned/Auntie/Mrs Sedley/Balstrode/Chorus)

Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter/Chorus/Nieces/Boles/Balstrode/Auntie)

Old Joe has gone fishing (Ned/Chorus/Peter)

The bridge is down (Hobson/Ned/Ellen/Boles/Auntie/Nieces/Peter)

Peter Grimes

ACT 2

Disc 2

Interlude III: Sunday morning

Scene 1

Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight (Ellen/Chorus/Rector)

Let this be a holiday (Ellen/Chorus/Rector/Peter)

This unrelenting work (Ellen/Peter/Chorus)

Fool to let it come to this! (Auntie/Ned/Boles/Chorus/Mrs Sedley/Balstrode/Lawyer/Swallow/Fisherwoman/Nices/Rector)

What is it? What do you suppose? Grimes is a t his excercise (Boles/Chorus/Balstrode/Rector/Auntie/Ellen)

People! No! I will Speak!

We planned that their lives should have a new start (Ellen/Rector/Mrs Sedley/Boles/Ned/Nieces/Auntie/Balstrode/Hobson/Swallow)

Swallow! Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?

Now is gossip put on trial (Chorus/Mrs Sedley/Boles/Rector/Ned/Swallow)

From the gutter (Nieces/Auntie/Ellen)

Interlude IV: Passacaglia

Scene 2

Go there!

Now! ... Now! (Chorus/Peter/Boles/Rector/Swallow/Ned)

Peter Grimes! Nobody there? (Rector/Swallow/Ned)

ACT 3

Interlude V: Moonlight

Scene 1

Assign your prettiness to me (Swallow/Nieces/Ned)

Pah! Ahoy! Ahoy! (Mrs Sedley/Ned)

Come along, Doctor! (First Burgess/Burgesses/Rector/Mrs Sedley/Ellen/Balstrode)

Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness (Ellen/Balstrode)

Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow! (Mrs Sedley/Auntie/Swallow/Hobson)

Who holds himself apart, lets pride rise (Chorus)

Interlude VI

Scene 2

Grimes! Grimes! (Chorus/Peter)

Peter, we've come to take you home (Ellen/Peter/Balstrode)

To those who pass the Borough (Chorus/Swallow/Fisherman/Auntie/Boles)