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Page to Opera Stage: The Storytellers of Billy Budd - Opera Wire
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“Page to Opera Stage” looks at stories – real-life or fiction, old and new – that have inspired operas, and the ways these narratives have been edited and dramatized to fit a new medium. This week, the focus is Herman Melville's great unfinished novella “Billy Budd, Sailor” and Benjamin Britten's “Billy Budd” adapted from the work in 1951. Seventeen years {…}
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