Metropolitan Opera: Billy Budd Show Poster

Metropolitan Opera: Billy Budd Cast & Creative

Benjamin Britten’s keen operatic retelling of Herman Melville’s shipboard drama stars Nathan Gunn as the innocent hero and James Morris as his nemesis.

This show is closed.

Performances ended on May. 12, 2012.

Show Overview

About Metropolitan Opera: Billy Budd

Benjamin Britten’s keen operatic retelling of Herman Melville’s shipboard drama stars Nathan Gunn as the innocent hero and James Morris as his nemesis.

Cast

John Daszak
Captain Vere
Nathan Gunn
Billy Budd

Creative

Composer
Benjamin Britten
Librettist
E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier
Director
John Dexter
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