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 ...

Los Angeles Opera’s production of Benjamin Britten’s “Billy Budd,” which opened Saturday night in a six-performance run at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, is an unusually absorbing night of ...

"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 ...

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 ...