Accusations of mutiny and an accidental death leave sailor Billy Budd in danger of hanging for murder. Britten's masterful setting of Herman Melville's towering novel-adapted by E.M. Forester and Eric Crozier-illuminates a journey through "the straits of hell."
Britten's Billy Budd
Apr. 25 - May 9, 2008 at Houston Grand Opera
www.houstongrandopera.org
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