A Bit o' Britten

The folks at SF Opera have reached a labor agreement that will allow them to broadcast some of the performances from the archives — beginning this Sunday with the 1976 production of Peter Grimes featuring Jon Vickers, Heather Harper and Geraint Evans (8 p.m. on KDFC).

It's a wee gesture, I guess, to mark the composer's centennial, and personally, I would have welcomed an actual mainstage production alongside the Verdi and Wagner. But look, we take what we can get.