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	Billy Budd (opera) Information
		Billy Budd is an English language opera by Benjamin Britten, first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on December 1, 1951.
		Billy is shocked at the cruelty of the punishment, but is certain that if he follows the rules he will be in no danger.
		Billy is prepares for his execution in his cell.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) (957 words)

	Billy Budd (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Billy Budd is an English language opera by Benjamin Britten, first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on December 1, 1951.
		Billy Budd is filled with excitement at the prospect of serving under "Starry Vere."
		Billy is prevented from giving a vocal defence due to his stammer, so he eventually strikes Claggart in desperation, killing him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) (781 words)

	Billy Budd opera by Benjamin Britten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One of these is Billy Budd, a handsome, open-hearted young man whose only failing is a stammer in moments of stress.
		Claggart stars to put to Vere his case against Billy as a mutineer, but a French sail is sighted and the air begins to clear.
		Vere, in his cabin, is sure of Billy's innocence, but when Claggart repeats his charges in front of Billy, the boy becomes so upset that his stammer chokes him and he strikes out at Claggart, killing him on the spot.
	web.telia.com /~u40001962/billybuddenglish.htm (586 words)

	Billy Budd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Billy Budd refers to several dramatic and literary works, mainly based on a novel by Herman Melville:
		Billy Budd (opera), an opera by Benjamin Britten based on Melville's novel, first performed in 1951
		Billy Budd (film), a film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov, released in 1962
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Budd (169 words)

	Britten: Billy Budd
		The opera was dubbed The Buggar's Opera by the British Press...a swipe at the proclivities of the opera's co-creators, Britten, E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier.
		Billy Budd is pressed into service aboard the English ship during its wars with Napoleon.
		The music for Billy is perhaps the hardest to create, but Britten seems to catch both his good spirits and his temper so that the threads that make the tragedy are woven into Billy almost from the first time we meet him.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-november04/reviews/review_britten.html (973 words)

	Billy Budd - Benjamin Britten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Billy Budd, published posthumously in 1924, is an allegory, a tale pitting the goodness of the title character, a young seaman, against evil, represented by the scheming John Claggart, the master-at-arms on board H.M.S. Indomitable, a British war ship in 1797.
		Billy, a stammerer, is infuriated and unable to express himself; he strikes and kills Claggart.
		Riddled with doubt and saddled with responsibility, Vere's conundrum is at the fulcrum of Billy Budd's philosophical concerns.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera2/BillyBudd.htm (682 words)

	Full text and plot summary of Billy Budd by Herman Melville
		Billy Budd is a novella by Melville, who is most famous for his novel Moby Dick that was written some forty years earlier.
		It is the story of ‘the handsome sailor’ Billy who, though a decent man, is treated badly by his master-at-arms called Claggart and strikes this nasty character down, killing him outright but unintentionally.
		The opera of the story by Britten (1951) is extremely popular and one of the most important modern works in the classical repertoire.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/36/1006 (239 words)

	The Hoya \| ‘Billy’ Lives Up to ‘Andrea’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The opera's opening night performance was a welcome success, as the superb singing, acting and staging combined to elevate the story and characters to new heights of emotional involvement and intensity.
		The opera, set at the turn of the 19th century, tells the tale of an idealistic young sailor named Billy Budd who joins the crew of the H.M.S. Indomitable under the command of the revered Captain Vere.
		It is all the more incredible, then, that Billy Budd manages to transcend the vast oceans that separate us from life aboard an 18th century man-o-war and infuse a sense of significance into the words and actions of the characters.
	www.thehoya.com /guide/092404/guide7.cfm (1399 words)

	Melville (Herman) Billy Budd Summary
		Billy Budd is a young 21 y/o former foundling serving on a merchant ship Rights-of-Man returning to England, when he is impressed to serve on the H.M.S. Bellipotent "seventy four" warship.
		Billy is horrified to see the back of a sailor who has been whipped.
		Budd is sentenced to hang from the mainyard the same morning, and Vere himself goes to tell him (we do not hear what is actually said between them).
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/hm_billybudd.html (568 words)

	ENGL 402 > Projects > Kisten Wood Project > Billy Budd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The environment of the ship is thus a useful vehicle for the opera since it represents a complete and encapsulated society in which the characters are veiled from social question.
		It is Claggart who manipulates Squeak, a subservient corporal into "plagu[ing] Budd by tangling his hammock, messing his kit and generally making a nuisance of himself: it begins to emerge that the malevolent master-as-arms intends to see the handsome new recruit [Billy] framed" (Cooke 4).
		Finally, the fact that Claggart’s death is a result of Budd’s frustration at being suppressed by Claggart and helplessly silenced by his stammer suggests the potential of innocence to "conquer the real evil" (Palmer 137) through natural and unintentional means.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /mmorris/402/woodB1.htm (563 words)

	Billy Budd, Constant Reader Discussion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Budd is a complete innocent in a world filled with evil, and the effect he has on those around him in the film is something fine to behold.
		Moreover, the organizational imperative to execute Budd is much clearer in the context of the RN of the time than it would have been on the miniscule American fleet of the early 19th century, because of the mutinies that had Occurred and because of the desperate nature of the struggle with France.
		Billy Budd is wearing a kind of see through T shirt that shows every sinew of his body and makes him look like either a body builder or a Greek god.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/billybudd.htm (8721 words)

	Billy Budd sails to dramatic heights in HGO's production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Billy refuses, but is later set up by Claggart to make it look as if he accepted the Novice's bribe.
		Even though the opera is set more than 200 years ago, the issues it discusses, such as good and evil and the struggle for power, are still relevant in today's society.
		The scene where Billy kneels down to witness the sunrise, then climbs onto the mast as the sun streams down on his face is extremely realistic.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol63/88/Enter2/8821098/8821098.html (636 words)

	Billy Budd - brittenpears.org
		Billy Budd was written during 1950-51 and first performed in December 1951 as part of that year’s ‘Festival of Britain’ celebrations.
		Although Billy is the opera’s eponymous hero, the real focus of the work is the moral dilemma facing Captain Vere who, confronted with an agonising decision between saving Billy and his sense of duty as the ship’s Captain is at the centre of the drama (a theme further explored by Britten in Gloriana).
		Billy Budd employs the largest orchestra of any Britten opera, capable of unleashing an elemental power when the moment demands it, but in general, the orchestration favours the more sharply etched, transparent textures developed in the chamber operas.
	www.brittenpears.org /?page=britten/repertoire/opera/budd.html (275 words)

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		Billy’s childlike innocence blinds him to Claggart’s evil intentions, even after he is warned by the older seaman, Dansker (Conal Coad).
		When Billy is asked to speak on his own behalf, he begins to stammer under the pressure, and instead of speaking, he strikes out at Claggart and kills him.
		The inadvertent death of the Master-at-Arms causes a sad chain of events as Billy is tried for the murder of a superior officer.
	www.catholicherald.com /articles/04articles/billybudd.htm (615 words)

	Soundings: All is not lost in ‘Billy Budd’
		It may not be an opera you'd willingly snuggle up with at home listening to the radio or a recording.
		Billy's appeal, both physical and emotional, of course, was the undoing of Master-at-Arms Claggart, whose obsession over Billy led to the ultimate death of both.
		(The opera starts and finishes through the eyes of an aged Vere looking back on the incidents that led to Billy's death.) He brought to his finely etched role a highly appealing tenor that, while not necessarily rounded in the upper registers, registered profound results.
	www.vagazette.com /entertainment/va-review2_oct02,0,6017923.story (860 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		"Billy Budd" is the story of an enthusiastic but naive sailor who is loved by all his fellow shipmates, except one.
		The master-at-arms on the ship is threatened by Budd's congeniality which he wrongly perceives as the desire to start a mutiny.
		"Billy Budd" is a good choice for fans of classic literature because it brings the novel to life onstage with great singing, music and sets.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /db/archivedarticles.asp?ID=747&date=6/8/2000 (573 words)

	British composer Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd : review by roland
		It was the first English opera I had ever seen, the first opera without a female role at all I've seen, and the first opera composed in the 20th century I've seen (it premiered in 1951).
		Billy Budd happens to be conscripted for duty early in the proceedings, and he soon becomes the most popular crew member due to his happy-go-lucky cheerful nature.
		The opera ends with a scene during which a much older Vere sorrowfully reflects on the whole story, acknowledging that the guilt for what he did will haunt him until his final breath.
	www.toronto-goth.com /reviews/live/billybudd.shtml (544 words)

	Billy Budd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Set on HMS Indomitable in 1797, during the French wars, the drama involves the relationship between Edward Fairfax Vere and the seaman Billy Budd, a sailor who has been taken to serve in the navy.
		Billy Budd, a character of radiant innocence, is in conflict with Claggart, the evil master-at-arms, who resolves to destroy him.
		It deals, as so often in Britten's operas, with the destruction of innocence, both that of the Novice, forced through fear to betray Billy Budd, and that of Billy Budd himself, while Captain Vere is presented with what might be seen as the traditional conflict between duty and love, current in earlier operatic tradition.
	naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Billy_Budd.htm (237 words)

	Washington Blade Online
		Budd is a very handsome and likeable fellow, who easily becomes popular on the ship, despite having a stammer that keeps him from speaking when he’s upset.
		Though Budd is innocent of mutiny and acted in self-defense, Vere must put him to death to stop a mutiny.
		THE SOURCE MATERIAL FOR the opera is taken from “Billy Budd” the novella by gay “Moby-Dick” novelist Herman Melville that was found in manuscript form when he died in 1891.
	www.washblade.com /print.cfm?content_id=3820 (590 words)

	'BUDD:' POWERFUL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE ON THE SEVEN SEAS
		When Billy is shanghaied by the Navy and forced to serve on the warship, his adieu of "Farewell, 'Rights of Man'" to his old ship is so topical today, you wonder whether this work was programmed here as an anti-John Ashcroft protest (possibly, but probably not).
		Billy is a young, naive, and popular hero brought aboard a ship weighed down with a despotic officer, Claggart, determined to destroy Billy through slander and deceit.
		The conflict of Billy (baritone Nathan Gunn) and Claggart (bass Philip Ens), who is clearly drawn to Billy via his own sexual repressions, is central, but the evolving main character is Capt. Vere (tenor Kim Begley), painfully torn between his esteem for Billy and his duty to the Navy's inflexible articles of war.
	www.artssf.com /budd0712.html (772 words)

	'Billy Budd' Is One Taut Ship (washingtonpost.com)
		The Washington National Opera's staging of Benjamin Britten's "Billy Budd," which opened Saturday night at the Kennedy Center, is one of those productions, like "Die Walkure" in 2003 or "Der Rosenkavalier" in 1995, that mark a new and spectacular advance for the troupe, raising the standards by which it must be judged in the future.
		Ever since I first saw "Billy Budd," in the famous Metropolitan Opera production almost 30 years ago, I have noted that it seems to be a work to which one takes strongly or not at all.
		Billy Budd, sung in English with English supertitles, will be repeated tomorrow, Saturday and next Monday, as well as Sept. 30 and Oct. 3, at the Kennedy Center Opera House.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A34449-2004Sep19.html (786 words)

	James Wierzbicki / Benjamin Britten
		OPERA THEATRE of St. Louis opens its 15th season next Saturday evening, and as usual the offerings on the Loretto-Hilton stage will be accompanied by a lavish program booklet built around essays based on the repertoire at hand.
		He is, indeed, a fascinating character, one of the opera world's great anti-heroes, a rough yet philosophical fisherman who is definitely a misfit in his community, arguably a sociopath but nonetheless a man whose villainy is more apparent than actual.
		The opera begins with an inquest into the death of Grimes' apprentice; even though the death is deemed an accident, Grimes is suspected of foul play.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /jameswierzbicki/britten.htm (3477 words)

	Amazon.com: Britten - Billy Budd / Hampson · Rolfe Johnson · Halfvarson · Smythe · Saks · Nagano: Music: Benjamin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Benjamin Britten's "Billy Budd," based on Melville's story, is the second-best opera about life on the sea since Wagner's "Flying Dutchman"--the best being Britten's "Peter Grimes." It is one of the 20th Century's most tragic operas and the only important opera with an all-male cast.
		The British prefer Britten operas not to be overly exciting, and even the composer's classic Decca recording of Billy Budd is much less dynamic than the premiere performance from 1951, which can still be heard in serviceable pirated mono (VAI).
		Note how Billy's Act IV moonlight reflections on his execution set for the dawn is set to the same gentle rocking figure that Berlioz used for Hylas' lonely song in Les Troyens.
	www.amazon.com /Britten-Hampson-Johnson-Halfvarson-Smythe/dp/B000006CS4 (1446 words)

	Billy Budd @ Coliseum, London, starring Simon Keenlyside : opera review
		The house was full for this eagerly awaited new production of Billy Budd, featuring the "dream team" of Simon Keenlyside as the handsome, innocent Billy and John Tomlinson as the evil sadist Claggart, set on destroying him.
		Billy Budd, newly pressed into service, is handsome, good and an enthusiastic recruit - seemingly any Master-at-Arms' dream recruit.
		One may question whether his monkey-like swings around bits of the staging are strictly necessary, but there's no doubting his enthusiasm and fresh-faced fervour as the newly recruited Billy: he is absolutely believable.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/billy-budd_1205.htm (816 words)

	WeaverWeb: Field Notes of a Rookie Opera Lover
		I had never seen or heard Billy Budd before, but discovered anew what a treat it is to understand the language of an opera: it made sense, I could follow everything, and I could let the whole opera wash over me without effort.
		It turns out she was headed for the gallery to hear the Texaco Opera Quiz done live between acts, and knew from experience that she had to hustle to get there before the doors closed.
		I followed her at a brisk trot down through the lounge near the press office and into Lizst Hall, where we made it with plenty to spare and were among the 100+ people who attended.
	howard.weaver.org /opera/billy.html (671 words)

	BRITTEN BILLY BUDD Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 20 September 2000 (PGW) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The sexual hothouse of a confined, all-male society, with rulers and ruled imprisoned together by custom and regulations, and locked in sadistic-masochistic relationships, is shown with an emphasis on cruelty and intimidation.
		Billy knew exactly where to go to await sentence after having understandably struck (but implausibly killed) the creepy villain, whom no-one trusted.
		All that said, Billy Budd worked its spell once again, and we departed; moved, chastened and somewhat shattered by what has become one of Britten's most enduring creations.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2000/sept00/budd.htm (436 words)

	'Billy Budd' at English National Opera, reviewed by Robert Hugill
		Both operas date from the same post-war period and both deal with single sex enclosed communities; Poulenc's Carmelite nuns being paralleled by Britten's 18th century naval sea-men.
		But the operas also have a religio-mystical element in common; The Carmelites deals with the transference of grace and Billy Budd can be seen as an allegory of good and evil involving elements of Adam's fall and Christ's sacrifice and redemption.
		In Melville, Captain Vere dies shortly after Billy, whereas in the opera the elderly Vere appears as prologue and epilogue; in the epilogue he is finally redeemed by Billy.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2005/12/billybudd1.htm (211 words)

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