You can’t sleep on the podium in this piece," conductor James Conlon told THR of the three-hour opera, which begins its run Feb. 22. By Jordan Riefe Billy Budd - H 2014 When it was composed in ...

Jacques Imbrailo in the title role of “Billy Budd” at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in 2017. He is to play the same role in a Royal Opera production in London opening next week.Credit ...

The climactic hanging in Los Angeles Opera’s revival of “Billy Budd” — opening on Feb. 22 — is also complicated, though for different reasons. To simulate the look of a naval execution, ...

On Saturday night, the Civic Opera House, scene of Lyric’s 1970 American premiere of “Billy Budd,” again will play host to the adaptation by Britten and E.M. Forster of Herman Melville’s ...

Composer Benjamin Britten’s “Billy Budd” is an opera about the deep bonds that build between extraordinary men in times of war; about that camaraderie forged between certain soldiers and ...

Add about another 16 men and boys to that and you have the full cast for Central City Opera’s production of “Billy Budd,” which opens Saturday, July 13, and runs through Aug. 2.

"Billy Budd" sailed back into the War Memorial Opera House on Sunday afternoon after a nearly 20-year absence, its emotional force and musical sweep as brilliantly potent as ever. With Music ...

And yet it’s what David Alden and English National Opera have achieved with this new production ... negated again and again by a production that actually manages to make Billy Budd a bore. The one ...

The great “Billy Budd” performances — the Britten-conducted premiere enshrined on the Decca recording, or the John Dexter staging at the Metropolitan Opera — have been, most of all ...