PITTSFIELD — The Berkshire County Historical Society's yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Herman Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor" is coming to a close. Before the ...

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 ...

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“Billy in the Darbies,” graphite drawing by Barry Moser, 2024. “Billy Budd, Sailor,” graphite drawing by Barry Moser, 2023. “The Death of John Claggart, Master-at-Arms,” woodcut by Barry Moser, 2023.

Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd is adapted for the screen, distinguished by Robert Krasker's expressive black-and-white cinematography and Peter Ustinov's crisp direction. Terence Stamp is ...

he second of Benjamin Britten's “maritime” operas revolves around the dramatic events on board the warship “Indomitable”. As with PETER GRIMES before it, this story, too, has no truck with oceanic ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Billy Budd, which as a novel is a skinny English Lit cousin of Moby Dick and as a play was drydocked after a brief Broadway run, finds itself as a beautiful, terrifying and heartbreaking film. The ...

John Dexter’s brilliant production of Britten’s searing opera stars Dwayne Croft in the title role of the handsome young sailor whose kindness and innocence cause his downfall. The great James Morris ...