Jacques Imbrailo in the title role of “Billy Budd” at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in 2017. He is to play the same role in a Royal Opera production in London opening next week. Yasuko ...

The return of “Billy Budd” is especially noteworthy when viewed in the context of Chicago’s “season of Britten.” March will bring a new production by Chicago Opera Theater of his chamber ...

Los Angeles Opera’s production of Benjamin Britten’s “Billy Budd,” which opened Saturday night in a six-performance run at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, is an unusually absorbing night of ...

Winding up a yearlong celebration of Benjamin Britten ’s centennial, L.A. Opera presents the composer’s most ambitious opera, Billy Budd, featuring definitive staging by Francesca Zambello ...

“Billy Budd” uses period costumes from the era around the Napoleonic Wars. The designer for Central City Opera’s 2019 production is Jonathan Knipscher.

Fourteen years after it first was performed at Los Angeles Opera, Benjamin Britten’s slyly suggestive opera “Billy Budd” is being given a second go-round, with a new baritone i… ...

The scene in which Billy Budd (Liam Bonner) is hanged has meant careful planning to avoid injury. The production is the high point of L.A. Opera's year-long tribute to composer Benjamin Britten.

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Cast members of the Central City Opera rehearse Benjamin Britten’s “Billy Budd” in Central City Wednesday July 3 2019.Joshua Hopkins, center, plays the title role.

A mighty cast sailed through “Billy Budd,” an all-male seafaring tale of good vs. evil with psychosexual undercurrents that opened Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House. Presented by San ...

"Billy Budd" sailed back into the War Memorial Opera House on Sunday afternoon after a nearly 20-year absence, its emotional force and musical sweep as brilliantly potent as ever. With Music ...

"That cursed mist" may hide the French from the crew of the HMS Indomitable and cause far more deadly damage to moral certainty. But clarity and strength are the assets of Orpha Phelan's new ...