LENOX — When Leonard Bernstein, age 27, gave “Peter Grimes” its American premiere at Tanglewood, The Eagle wrote that he led Benjamin Britten’s seaside opera with a “heroic and dependable beat” that ...
This fall, the Grolier Club will present an exhibition commemorating the centenary of an American literary classic: Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd (1924). On view in the Grolier Club's second ...
PITTSFIELD — Herman Melville owes his status as a literary giant to his granddaughter, Eleanor Melville Metcalf, and the 1924 publishing of his lost novella, "Billy Budd, Sailor." Metcalf found the ...
“Billy in the Darbies,” graphite drawing by Barry Moser, 2024. “Billy Budd, Sailor,” graphite drawing by Barry Moser, 2023. “The Death of John Claggart, Master-at-Arms,” woodcut by Barry Moser, 2023.
"Billy Budd," Herman Melville's unfinished allegory of innocence and guilt upon a British war ship, deeply examined and given some spiritual closure by composer Benjamin Britten and librettists E.M.
This essay explores the relationship between Herman Melville’s Billy Budd (published 1924) and late-nineteenth-century neuroscience—particularly works by Alexander Bain and George Henry Lewes—to argue ...
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"It is long, it is hard, it is arduous. You can’t sleep on the podium in this piece," conductor James Conlon told THR of the three-hour opera, which begins its run Feb. 22. By Jordan Riefe Billy Budd ...
Billy Budd at the Southwark Playhouse is the third production from theatre company secret/heart. Adapted from a novel by Herman Melville, it tells the tale of Billy Budd, a bright, wide-eyed, simple ...
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