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Polish National Opera presents Peter Grimes, Britten, now streaming on OperaVision. Britten’s brillant early opera about a reclusive fisherman who finds himself at odds with this local community. The new production from Warsaw is directed by Mariusz Treliński and conducted by Michał Klauza. Tenor Peter Wedd plays the complex protagonist, alongside soprano Cornelia Beskow as the empathetic Ellen Orford and baritone Krzysztof Szumański as the retired captain Balstrode, whose condemnation seals Grimes’s fate.

Peter Grimes lives from fishing. Raw and recluse, he finds himself at odds with the local community who accuse him of brutality towards his young apprentices and blames him for the death of one of them. A few friends stand up for him – Ellen Orford, a widow whom he wants to marry, Balstrode a retired sea captain, and an apothecary Ned Keene – but Grimes remains a mysterious figure. What really happened to his missing apprentice,...

It’s the year that New York caught up to Europe when it comes to radical interpretations of the classics. On stage in 2016, there was Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female “The Taming of the Shrew,” set at a Trump-produced beauty pageant; Ivo van Hove’s “The Crucible,” set in a classroom; and at the Met, Mariusz Trelinski’s “Tristan und Isolde,” set on a warship. No surprise, all those directors are European, and, for better or worse, their names tended to dominate reviews of the respective productions. Shakespeare, Miller, and Wagner are only writers, after all. Sam Gold, an American, joins this hip-directors foray.