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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Central City’s historic opera house — with its small stage and orchestra pit — is an intimate affair. Even more so when you jam the stage with a chorus of 40 men. Add about another 16 men ...

Given the central importance of Benjamin Britten’s operas to the 20th Century repertory, it’s strange that only two of them, “Peter Grimes” and “Billy Budd,” hav… ...

budd_170_db.jpg Billy Budd (shirtless) played by Nathan Gunn, is surrounded by seamen as he sees Squeak going through his things to spy on him at night in the first act of "Billy Budd," the opera ...

Billy Budd recently opened at San Francisco Opera and the critics were in attendance! Find out what they had to say. San Francisco Opera presents Benjamin Britten's masterpiece of law and order on ...

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 ...

Fourteen years after it first was performed at Los Angeles Opera, Benjamin Britten’s slyly suggestive opera “Billy Budd” is being given a second go-round, with a new baritone in the pivotal ...

Although Benjamin Britten’s opera “Billy Budd” is undeniably a tragedy, there’s also an element of sweetness to the title character whose innocence leads to his demise. There’s another ...