Artist/Event Name: Billy Budd
Venue: Glyndebourne
Time: 17:10
Date: 27/05/2010
Town/City: Lewes
Country: UK
Postcode: BN8 5UU
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As part of the Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2010, Michael Grandage present “Billy Budd”:
Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten
A new production for the 2010 Festival
Sung in English with supertitles
Glyndebourne’s proud association with the operas of Benjamin Britten stretches from its world premiere productions of The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring in 1946 and 1947 through to Jonathan Kent’s 2007 Festival staging of The Turn of the Screw, taking in memorable reappraisals of Peter Grimes’, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Owen Wingrave and Death in Venice along the way. However, Glyndebourne has never, until now, staged Billy Budd, the 1951 all-male opera, with a libretto co-written by E. M. Forster. Based on Herman Melville’s allegorical tale about the battle between pure good and blind evil, the opera takes place amidships on a British man-o’-war. Michael Grandage has chosen this work to make his long-awaited operatic debut. He is the Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse in London and is the recipient of Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and South Bank Show awards for his work.
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