Opera in two acts
Libretto by E M FORSTER and ERIC CROZIER after the story by HERMAN MELVILLE
Music by Britten: records (1967) Britten 's direction of the opera ensures that we are hearing everything as it should be. It is, perhaps, the first full-length opera recording of which one can say it is as near perfection as can be. (ALEC ROBERTSON ,
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AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
LSO/THE COMPOSER
Prologue and Act 1
3.30* Interval Reading
3.35* Act 2 and Epilogue
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