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Billy Budd, Op. 50, is an opera by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by the novelist E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, based on the short novel Billy Budd by Herman Melville. Originally in four acts, the opera received its premiere at the Royal Opera House (ROH), London, on 1 December 1951.
Billy Budd, opera by Benjamin Britten that premiered in London on December 1, 1951. Based on the novel by Herman Melville, it is set in 1797 on a British naval vessel and is the only opera by a major composer to have an entirely male cast. The story of Billy Budd concerns a young merchant sailor.
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9K views 1 year ago. Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd Op. 50 Libretto by E.M Forster and Eric Crozier From the short story by Herman Melville: Billy Budd, Sailor. An Inside narrative. ...more.
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An adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella, Billy Budd is one of the most gripping and successful operas of the 20th century. Set almost entirely aboard a British warship, the drama is a stark morality play about the inherent difficulty of recognizing the difference between good and evil.
Benjamin Britten first conceived the idea of an opera based on Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd in late 1948 in conversation with novelist E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier.
Oct 23, 2023 · Composer: Benjamin Britten; Libretto: E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville; First performed: Royal Opera House, London, UK, 1 st December 1951, conducted by Britten. Revised 1964.
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Sep 9, 2019 · One of the challenges in staging Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd is the question of tone: how to balance the realistic, almost journalistic aspects of the action — a quasi-historical murder and execution in 1797 aboard an English man-of-war in the French Revolutionary Wars — with the mythic dimensions of this fable about devil and angel.
