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Billy Budd / Benjamin Britten.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, Composer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
- Live sound recordings.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Live sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (2 hr., 39 min., 16 sec.))
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2012]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- audio file streaming audio file
- Summary:
- During the 2024-25 season, American composer Jake Heggie brings his towering modern masterpiece Moby-Dick to the Met for the first time. Nearly three quarters of a century earlier in his native England, Benjamin Britten unveiled his own sea-soaked opera based on the writings of Herman Melville: Billy Budd. The work arrived at the Met in 1978 and has made rare, but always eagerly anticipated, returns in the years since. The most recent was recorded during the 2011-12 season and starred baritone Nathan Gunn in the title role, an idealistic young sailor aboard the HMS Indomitable during the French Revolutionary Wars. In one of his signature roles, veteran bass-baritone James Morris was Budd's nemesis, the malevolent master-at-arms John Claggart, with tenor John Daszak as the principled Captain Vere. Maestro David Robertson was at the helm to conduct the mighty forces of the Met Orchestra and Chorus in one of the pinnacles of the 20th-century operatic repertoire.
- Contents:
- Prologue: I am an old man who has experienced much
- Pull, my bantams!
- Who did that?
- Send for John Claggart
- Billy Budd, king of the birds!
- I heard, your honour! Yes, I heard
- Come along, kid!
- Christ, the poor chap, the poor little runt!
- Starry Vere we call him. Starry Vere!
- Boy! My compliments to Mr. Redburn and Mr. Flint
- Don't like the French!
- Mutiny
- Interlude - Blow her away
- Here lads! Here!
- Come out of that!
- O beauty, o handsomeness, goodness!
- Come here. Remember your promise
- Billy!
- Hist! Billy Budd!
- Dansker old friend, glad to see you!
- I don't like the look of the mist, Mr. Redburn
- Deck ahoy! Enemy sail on starboard bow!
- All guns ready, sir! We wait to fire
- There you are again, Master-at-arms
- Oh, this cursed mist!
- Claggart, John Claggart, beware!
- Master-at-arms and foretopman, I speak to you both
- God o' mercy!
- Interlude - William Budd, you are accused by Captain Vere
- Poor fellow, who could save him?
- I accept their verdict - Interlude
- Look! Through the port comes the moon-shine astray!
- And farewell to ye, old Rights o' Man!
- Interlude
- According to the Articles of War, it is provided as follows
- We committed his body to the deep.
- Participant:
- John Daszak, Nathan Gunn, James Morris ; the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; David Robertson, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded live 2012 May 10 the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Duration: 2 hr., 39 min., 16 sec.
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 1433153261
- Publisher Number:
- USY3P2408725
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- 810004203396
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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