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Opera in 2 (originally 4) acts
Libretto: E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier [Based: Herman Melville: Billy Budd]
First performance: 1 December 1951, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Recorded: 1966, BBC
Peter Pears (Vere)
Peter Glossop (Budd)
Michael Langdon (Claggart)
John Shirley-Quirk (Redburn)
This DVD is part of the Britten-Pears DVD Collection. This collection features four historically and musically significant films from the BBC archives of works and performances by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, one of the greatest English tenors and Britten's long-term partner and artistic inspiration. None of the films have been available before on any home video format.
The first film of any Britten opera.
Only film recording of 'Billy Budd' featuring the great Peter Pears as Captain Vere.
A black- and-white studio film recorded by the BBC in 1966.
The cast contains a host of distinguished names with the young Peter Glossop as the hapless sailor Billy, and John Shirley-Quirk, Robert Tear and Benjamin Luxon. The recording was conducted by Charles Mackerras.
Extras: Britten - Pears trailer
"Basil Coleman... created massive, painstakingly authentic settings on a 1770s man-o'-war. ...its fluency and shifting viewpoints are still striking today."
---BBC Music Magazine, August 2008 *****
"Peter Pears patrician features, with he high forehead and aquiline nose, so perfectly suit Edward Fairfax Vere that this, of all roles, is the one with which is most inseparably identified. Opposite him are the burly Billy of Peter Glossop an the black-toned Claggart of Michael Langdon, heading a devoted and well cast company..."
--- Gramophone Magazine, September 2008
DVD of the Month - September 2008
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