This revival of Michael Grandage’s atmospheric production of Britten’s opera has numerous fine performances: Thomas Mole and Sam Carl are persuasive as Billy and Claggart, and Allan Clayton’s luminous ...

Fifty years since Benjamin Britten died, and his operas are still in repertory: half a dozen of them at least. It’s a tribute ...

It is 75 years since Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd first appeared on stage: a collaboration between himself and novelist EM ...

Is Billy Budd Benjamin Britten’s greatest opera? Personally, I would go farther and say it’s not only Britten’s greatest ...

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 ...

PITTSFIELD — It’s easy to imagine Herman Melville writing “Moby-Dick” while gazing out at the sea or aboard a ship. But the truth is, he wrote it here, in the landlocked Berkshire Hills. In his study ...

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 ...

Britten’s ambiguous opera is delivered with musical and dramatic excellence Michael Grandage’s 2010 staging of Britten’s 1951 opera returns for a second revival, with a new conductor and cast.

This stupendous production of Billy Budd, brilliantly cast, evocatively staged and deeply satisfying, reflects Michael Grandage’s vast experience of theatre and his desire to explore what he has ...

Billy Budd at the Southwark Playhouse is the third production from theatre company secret/heart. Adapted from a novel by Herman Melville, it tells the tale of Billy Budd, a bright, wide-eyed, simple ...