Benjamin Britten Lord Harewood called it "the first genuinely successful British opera, Gilbert and Sullivan apart, since Purcell." Dismayed by the in-fighting among the company, Cross, Britten and Pears severed their ties with Sadler's Wells in December 1945, going on to found what was to become the English Opera Group. A month after the opening of "Peter Grimes", Britten and Yehudi Menuhin went to Germany to give recitals to concentration camp survivors. What they saw, at Belsen most of all, so shocked Britten that he refused to talk about it until towards the end of his life, when he told Pears that
Opera in Dutch a minor strand in opera performance which persisted, with closures and openings of various opera companies, until World War I, and again in the inter-war years. A revived attempt to produce operas sung in Dutch was made by De Nederlandse Opera in the years following World War II. Similarly in Belgium the Vlaamse Opera sang French and Italian works in Dutch till the 1980s. Peter Benoit produced his first opera in Flemish, "Het dorp in't gebergte" (A Mountain Village) in Brussels in 1856. Peter-Jan Wagemans' 2006 opera "Legende" premiered in 2011 at De Nederlandse Opera. Opera in Dutch Opera in