I've returned home from the Metropolitan Opera House. It took me a full hour to get my car out of the garage, mainly because a production of South Pacific let out at the same time right next door. I was at Lincoln Center to see Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten's study of the outsider living in a seaside town on the English coast. It's a powerful piece, with music evoking the power of the sea as a leading "character" in this opera.
