James Morris - Claggart's aria - Billy Budd Met '97
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@MrMenyc It is. Also, Melville was very likely gay too.
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@Sieglinde84 He should be selling tickets at the box office. Hes horrible.
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@JeeRant It is an incredible piece of Truth.
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@MrMenyc Almost certainly, and in love with Billy Budd.
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Claggart's motives are ambiguous, that's the beauty of the piece. Yet, he has his precedence in Verdi's Iago and Boito's Mephistopheles. The Met production is a stunner, and I hope they revive it soon.
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Well, that is kind of the whole point of the story.
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Libretto by E.M. Forster. Could Claggart's torment be that he's a self-hating closet case?
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Libretto by E, M Forster. Is Claggart's inner torment that he's a closet case?
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Yes - Langdon had a wonderfully clear diction and a truly dark voice... Morris has to darken it. It needs a Hagen, not a Wotan...
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"But alas, alas! A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehends it, and suffers..."
One of the most chilling lines in all opera.
JeeRant 2 years ago 14
Sometimes I feel pity for him. He just can't do anything against his nature...
Sieglinde84 2 years ago 7