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 ...

"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.

The opera is based on a short novel by Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick, but the work was unfinished when he died in 1891. The author's indecipherable handwriting and unintelligible notes led to ...

L'opéra de Britten était si radical au moment de sa première en raison des éléments homosexuels pas si discrets, à une époque où il était encore criminel d'être gay. Un casting exclusivement masculin, ...

Benjamin Britten'ın Billy Budd'u sahnede 75 yıl önce ilk kez yer aldı: Kendisinin ve yazar EM Forster'ın Herman Melville'nin novella'sını uyarlamak için yaptığı bir işbirliği. Sonuç olarak masumiyet ...

In a gripping totality, opening night of the Houston Grand Opera revival of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd brought one of the best-sung performances the company has presented in many years. Listeners ...

It did, and in the usual unexpected ways. Padmore, possessing the smallest of the three lead voices, projected best right to the back of the hall, where I was this time sitting, with crystal clear ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?