 In May of the same year, with Dennis Brain and the Boyd Neel Orchestra, they recorded the Serenade.As the war was nearing its end, the artistic director of Sadler's Wells, the singer Joan Cross, announced her intention to re-open the company's home base in London with Britten's new opera "Peter Grimes", casting herself and Pears in the leading roles.There were complaints from company members about supposed favouritism and the "cacophony" of Britten's score, as well as some ill-suppressed homophobic remarks.