John Dexters brilliant production of Brittens searing opera stars Dwayne Croft in the title role of the handsome young sailor whose kindness ... who falsely accuses Billy of inciting a mutiny ...

IT is the centennial year of "Billy Budd, Sailor," Herman Melville's last book, a novella. Melville wrote it in the last five years of his life, but it was published posthumously only in 1924.