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 Francisco ...
An adaptation of the Benjamin Britten opera, in turn based on Melville’s classic novella, joins a lineage of beautiful enigmas. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Aix-en-Provence, France Billy Budd is a ...