The Metropolitan Opera: Peter Grimes

Fathom presents the excitement of The Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinees - in HD on the Big Screen! The LIVE broadcast of Britten's Peter Grimes will be shown for one day only on Saturday, March 15 at 1:30PM ET / 10:30AM PT in select theatres nationwide. Peter Grimes is under investigation for unthinkable transgressions, yet Benjamin Britten's probing exploration of the nature of guilt and judgment implicates an entire fishing village. Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey takes on the complex title role. The riveting Patricia Racette plays Ellen Orford, the woman who refuses to abandon him. Peter Grimes, with its sweeping orchestral beauty, will be an engrossing and haunting theatrical journey.