Billy Budd was the last novel by Herman Melville
Imbrailo and Toby Spence as Budd and Captain VereI find his music generally too dreary and tuneless to give much enjoyment, but when the theme of the opera is as strikingly sombre and moralistic as that of Billy Budd, Britten's music can fit it perfectly. Even I cannot deny that Billy Budd is a great work and when the acting, singing and staging are of the quality displayed in Deborah Warner's new production at the Royal Opera House, it is a real treat.
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