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 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.

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 ...

Billy Budd (adapted from Herman Melville’s story by Louis O. Coxe & Robert Chapman; produced by Chandler Cowles & Anthony B. Farrell) is a brave shot at a difficult target. On its own terms the sea ...

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 ...

"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 ...