"Billy Budd," Herman Melville's unfinished allegory of innocence and guilt upon a British war ship, deeply examined and given some spiritual closure by composer Benjamin Britten and librettists E.M.

We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of England's most prominent opera composer, Benjamin Britten, with a Swedish premiere for his heart-rending drama Billy Budd from 1952, one of ...

This stupendous production of Billy Budd, brilliantly cast, evocatively staged and deeply satisfying, reflects Michael Grandage’s vast experience of theatre and his desire to explore what he has ...

In a gripping totality, opening night of the Houston Grand Opera revival of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd brought one of the best-sung performances the company has presented in many years. Listeners ...

Quiz time! Name a 19th-cent ury Eng- lish-language opera you've actually heard. Not a Verdi or Puccini chestnut sung in English but an opera with an English libretto. Not a single one? Don't feel ...

It did, and in the usual unexpected ways. Padmore, possessing the smallest of the three lead voices, projected best right to the back of the hall, where I was this time sitting, with crystal clear ...

LENOX — When Leonard Bernstein, age 27, gave “Peter Grimes” its American premiere at Tanglewood, The Eagle wrote that he led Benjamin Britten’s seaside opera with a “heroic and dependable beat” that ...

Fresh from the quarterdeck of HMS Indomitable and David Alden‘s brand new staging of Britten’s Billy Budd able seamen Benedict Nelson, Nicky Spence, and Duncan Rock are shining examples of a ...

The Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires will present the Argentina premiere of Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd during its 2025 season. This production, directed by Marcelo Lombardero, will be performed 1 ...

Jens-Erik Aasbø (Lieutenant Ratcliffe)Marius Roth Christensen (Squeak)Henrik Engelsviken (Red Whiskers)Martin Hatlo (Donald)Peter Hoare (Edward Fairfax Vere)Jacques Imbrailo (Billy Budd)Aleksander ...

Grandage avoids (or implies) the symbolic baggage carried by one of Britten's closest-to-the-bone operatic choices of subject, but since plenty of previous productions have dealt with that, I didn't ...

Michael Grandage’s production is every bit as stupendous as I described it in 2010 despite a few cast changes and a slightly different interpretation of the main character’s (that is, Vere’s) ...