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Billy Budd | Stage Door Society

Opera

Billy Budd

Benjamin Britten

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Provenance

Composer

Benjamin Britten

Librettist

E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier

Premiered

1951

Synopsis

A handsome young sailor's stammer leads to a fatal blow and a captain's agonizing moral dilemma.

tragedyenglish20th-century

Recordings

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