Sea-changes - Melville - Forster - Britten : the story of Billy Budd and its operatic adaptation
E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville's novella for the opera stage. The libretto they produced poignantly reaffirms the Forsterian creed of salvation through personal...
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Universitätsverlag Göttingen
2012
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