Billy Budd: Deutsche Oper Berlin
About the Event
The Deutsche Oper Berlin presents a visually powerful production of Benjamin Britten's musically complex opera, 'Billy Budd'.
In Britten's 'maritime' opera, life at sea is tough, the code of conduct in the male environment unbending. Edward Morgan Forster and Eric Crozier wrote the libretto based on the novella by Hermann Melville, author of 'Moby‐Dick'. Britten, a life‐long critic of injustice and ostracisation, composed the work in 1950/51 in response to a commission from the Royal Opera House Convent Garden.
In English language, with German and English surtitles.
Cast / Production
Conductor: Moritz Gnann
Stage Production: David Alden
Stage Design: Paul Steinberg
Costume Design: Constance Hoffman
Light Design: Andy Cutbush
Chorus Master: Raymond Hughes
Children's Chorus: Christian Lindhorst
Choreography: Maxine Braham
Edward Fairfax Vere: Burkhard Ulrich
Billy Budd: John Chest
John Claggart: Gidon Saks
Captain Redburn: Seth Carico
Mr. Flint: Derek Welton
Leutnant Ratcliffe: Tobias Kehrer
Red Whiskers: Clemens Bieber
Donald: Simon Pauly
Dansker: Lenus Carlson
The Novice: Andrew Dickinson
Squeak: James Kryshak
Mr. Bosun: Ievgen Orlov
1. Maat: Dong‐Hwan Lee
2. Maat: Noel Bouley
Maintop: Paul Kaufmann
The Novice's friend: Thomas Lehmann
Arthur Jones: Heiner Boßmeyer
Choir: Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Children's Choir of the Deutsche
Oper Berlin
Orchestra: Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
