"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-hour opera, which begins its run Feb. 22. By Jordan Riefe Billy Budd ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our writer Michael Grandage directed Billy Budd for Glyndebourne in 2010 (pictured). It makes a return to the opera house this ...

Buenos Aires will welcome a momentous cultural event this July: the Argentine premiere of Benjamin Britten’s operatic masterpiece, Billy Budd, at the legendary Teatro Colón. Directed by Marcelo ...

"Billy Budd," Herman Melville's unfinished allegory of innocence and guilt upon a British war ship, deeply examined and given some spiritual closure by composer Benjamin Britten and librettists E.M.

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LENOX — When Leonard Bernstein, age 27, gave “Peter Grimes” its American premiere at Tanglewood, The Eagle wrote that he led Benjamin Britten’s seaside opera with a “heroic and dependable beat” that ...

Nautical tragedy Billy Budd, one of the major operatic works of the last century, has impeccable credentials: a script based on Herman Melville s novella first published in 1924, written by A Room ...

Our writer Michael Grandage directed Billy Budd for Glyndebourne in 2010 (pictured). It makes a return to the opera house this summer - Alastair Muir Is Billy BuddBenjamin Britten’s greatest opera?

An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is a young sailor aboard a British man-o'-war, persecuted by his ...