Benjamin Britten
The Metropolitan Opera concludes its 2020-21 season of recorded performances with Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten. This heartbreaking opera is based on Hermann Melville’s classic about a naive and innocent sailor wrongly accused of mutiny and sentenced to death, and the captain who reflects on that fateful decision. Sung in English, this production from 1997 stars Dwayne Croft in the title role and also features veteran baritone James Morris.