PITTSFIELD — The Berkshire County Historical Society's yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Herman Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor" is coming to a close. Before the ...

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: ...

The exhibition features more than 50 items that relate to “Billy Budd,” including transcriptions of the novel’s manuscript, movie posters, and the libretto for the Benjamin Britten opera ...

including multiple scholarly editions of the Billy Budd manuscript, illustrations, photographs, dust jackets, movie posters, an opera libretto, playbills, a commemorative stamp, unique fine ...

The book has been translated into Persian by Ahmad Miralai. “Billy Budd” is a novella by Herman Melville that tells the story of a young sailor named Billy Budd who is impressed into service on a ...

Scheduled for nine performances, through March 29, at the English National Opera`s home, the London Coliseum (it will be broadcast on BBC-TV in the fall), ”Billy Budd” has become one of the ...

Also uncanny was the music that rumbles on the soundtrack, shortly after the film begins—a sailors’ chorus from Benjamin Britten’s opera “Billy Budd,” an adaptation of the eponymous ...

The Glyndebourne Festival’s production of Billy Budd. Richard Termine Billy Budd finds Britten, and his librettists, E.M Forster and Eric Crozier, at a place of sweeping, introspective ghostliness.

Christian Van Horn as John Claggart and William Burden as Captain Vere in Brittens Billy Budd. Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera If anyone in the seagoing tale is closeted or morally ambiguous, ...

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.

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 ...