Name: Billy Budd
Start: 1992-04-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1992-04-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Conductor

Charles Mackerras

Tenor

Graham Clark

Captain Edward Fairfax Vere

Baritone

Thomas Hampson

Billy Budd

Bass

James Morris

John Claggart

The Metropolitan Opera

English

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Benjamin Britten’s gripping retelling of Herman Melville’s tale of the clash between good and evil is superbly brought to life by the magnificent conducting of Charles Mackerras and this remarkable cast. Thomas Hampson is the innocent Billy Budd, falsely accused of mutiny by the evil master-at-arm Claggart (James Morris). When Billy involuntarily strikes and kills him, Captain Vere (Graham Clark) orders Billy hanged, though he knows it was an accident. With Alan Held as Mr. Redburn.

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