Billy Budd - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Billy Budd
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Location:
30.10.2024 , Wednesday
19:00
B
Staatsoper, Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna
Seating plan
Content:
"Evil knows about good, but good does not know about evil."
This quote by Franz Kafka would be a fitting subtitle for Britten's Billy Budd. The satanic officer Claggart succeeds in making Billy Budd, the angelic and therefore unsuspecting sailor loved by all, innocently guilty and thus destroying him.
1st act approx. 80 min
Interval approx. 25 min
2nd act approx. 75 min
Cast:
Edward Fairfex Vere, captain of the "Indomitable"
Gregory Kunde
Billy Budd, foreman
Huw Montague Rendall
John Claggart, master-at-arms
Brindley Sherratt
Mr. Redburn
Adrian Eröd
Mr. Flint
Wolfgang Bankl
Lieutenant Ratcliffe
Attila Mokus
Conductor
Mark Wigglesworth
Director
Willy Decker
Set design
Wolfgang Gussmann
Costumes
Wolfgang Gussmann
SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
"Evil knows about good, but good does not know about evil."
This quote by Franz Kafka would be a fitting subtitle for Britten's Billy Budd. The satanic officer Claggart succeeds in making Billy Budd, the angelic and therefore unsuspecting sailor loved by all, innocently guilty and thus destroying him.
1st act approx. 80 min
Interval approx. 25 min
2nd act approx. 75 min
Cast:
Edward Fairfex Vere, captain of the "Indomitable"
Gregory Kunde
Billy Budd, foreman
Huw Montague Rendall
John Claggart, master-at-arms
Brindley Sherratt
Mr. Redburn
Adrian Eröd
Mr. Flint
Wolfgang Bankl
Lieutenant Ratcliffe
Attila Mokus
Conductor
Mark Wigglesworth
Director
Willy Decker
Set design
Wolfgang Gussmann
Costumes
Wolfgang Gussmann
SUBJECT TO CHANGE.