Peter Grimes review: show goes on despite nightmare mishap

Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane
Cast rallies after star singer Stuart Skelton suffers pollen allergies during opera

It was meant to be the icing on the festival cake. Instead it became the stuff of nightmares.

On the opening night of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes – the headline act for Brisbane festival, directed by Daniel Slater and brought to Australia after ecstatic reviews in the UK – the star singer Stuart Skelton was suddenly taken sick.

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