REVIEW: Billy Budd

OPERA NEWS —Marc Shulgold The three principal roles were impeccably cast and each man was projected as a conflicted, three-dimensional individual.
Setting the Stage for BILLY BUDD

Setting the Stage for BILLY BUDD

BASED ON HERMAN MELVILLE’S NOVELLA, Billy Budd is a play in contrasts. Britten’s opera explores the duality of morals and law while pitting the expanse of the sea against the claustrophobia of the small society onboard a 1797 British warship. With the Napoleonic Wars...