John Chest as Billy Budd and Edward Nelson as Bosun in Britten's "Billy Budd." Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera "Billy Budd," Herman Melville's unfinished allegory of innocence and guilt upon a ...

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.

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 ...

Benjamin Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Arrives at the L.A. Opera "It is long, it is hard, it is arduous. You can’t sleep on the podium in this piece," conductor James Conlon told THR of the three ...

Quiz time! Name a 19th-cent ury Eng- lish-language opera you've actually heard. Not a Verdi or Puccini chestnut sung in English but an opera with an English libretto. Not a single one? Don't feel ...

Billy Graham has died. The evangelist led millions to God not only with his words, but his example. Billy Graham, 99 dies: A man who preached - and lived - a Christian life | Charlotte Observer ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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 ...

Good or evil. Some people can divide everyone and everything into those two categories, recognizing no gray shades in between, but most of us, I suspect, find it less simple. We’re more likel… ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Of Britten’s mature operas The Rape of Lucretia has traditionally been seen as the most “difficult”, on ...