I am seeing a revival of ENO's Peter Grimes next week, and this was my taster. An excellent production, beautifully sung and directed, with clever and intelligent use of projected scenery - mostly sea scapes, storms and the like. Grimes, sung by English tenor Peter Wedd, was a more vulnerable, slightly less "rough" character than often depicted. The focus following the death of the second apprentice John was on the potential for Grimes to commit suicide; he was shown with a large knife just before the final scene obviously contemplating opening his wrists. The "crowd" scenes were intelligently done - not too raucous, with a somewhat thoughtful interpretation of the closed and judgemental community of the Borough. My only niggle was a rather unnecessary scene involving a cake made in the shape of a full size dead body that was cut up and eaten whilst Grimes was contemplating his fate - didn't work well, and whilst I imagine it was to depict the community "consuming and destroying" an individual, it didn't really work. I had never seen a production of Grimes from a non English speaking opera company before, and I was very impressed.