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Billy Budd, Op. 50, is an opera by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by the novelist E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, based on the short novel Billy Budd by Herman Melville. [1] Originally in four acts, the opera received its premiere at the Royal Opera House (ROH), London, on 1 December 1951. [ 2 ]
Uppman as Britten's Billy Budd in 1951. Theodor Uppman (12 January 1920 – 17 March 2005) was an American operatic baritone.He is best known for his creation of the title role in Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd.
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891.. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickly took its place as a classic second only to Moby-Dick among Melville's
Billy Budd, Op. 50: Opera in four acts, 162'. Libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, after the novella by Herman Melville. Premiered on 1 December 1951 at the Royal Opera House, London. Published by Boosey & Hawkes. Billy Budd (revised): Opera in two acts, 158'. Premiered on 9 January 1964 at the Royal Opera House, London. Published by ...
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His other notable conducting work at Lyric Opera included conducting the US premiere of Britten's Billy Budd in 1970, [4] and the 1978 world premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki's Paradise Lost. Bartoletti focused almost exclusively on opera in his career, with few conducting engagements in symphonic work. [3]
As an opera singer, he has had an international career spanning five decades. [1] Duesing grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied piano throughout childhood, and enrolled at Lawrence University, majoring in piano performance. He switched to vocal performance while in college, and won the Metropolitan Opera Competition in his final year of ...
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976): Albert Herring, Billy Budd, The Burning Fiery Furnace, Curlew River, Death in Venice, Gloriana, The Little Sweep, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Noye's Fludde, Owen Wingrave, Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Prodigal Son, The Rape of Lucretia, The Turn of the Screw; Rudolf Brucci (1917–2002): Gilgamesh