An adaptation of the Benjamin Britten opera, in turn based on Melville’s classic novella, joins a lineage of beautiful ...

Canberra Theatre Centre (CTC) has been more than just a venue – it's been a part of people's memories, says its director Alex ...

Via his opera “Billy Budd,” which took its action from a coastal town to the isolation of a naval frigate under sail, Britten is tied to its original author, one of the Berkshires’ most celebrated: ...

On Saturday at 1 pm, join us as the Metropolitan Opera presents a 1997 recording of Britten’s Billy Budd. Adapted from Herman Melville’s novella of the same name, the opera follows the crew of the ...

NEWBURYPORT — The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season concludes Saturday at 1 p.m. on WJOP with a modern classic: “Billy Budd,” Benjamin Britten’s drama of good and evil on ...

Two Opera Companies Find New Resonance in the Seafaring Drama ‘Billy Budd’ Glyndebourne Festival and Des Moines Metro Opera present competing streams of the claustrophobic opera "Billy Budd.' ...

Des Moines Metro Opera presents Billy Budd, the world premiere of the new orchestration.

"Billy Budd," Herman Melville's unfinished allegory of innocence and guilt upon a British war ship, deeply examined by composer Benjamin Britten and librettists E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, is the ...

Oceanic opera: If you haven’t yet seen San Francisco Opera’s gripping production of “Billy Budd,” Benjamin Britten’s operatic masterpiece, there’s still time — this weekend offers ...

A mighty cast sailed through “Billy Budd,” an all-male seafaring tale of good vs. evil with psychosexual undercurrents that opened Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House. Presented by San ...

San Francisco Opera presents Benjamin Britten's masterpiece of law and order on the high seas, Billy Budd, in six performances at the War Memorial Opera House September 7–22. Based on the ...