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Billy Budd

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Benjamin Britten 's opera, with a libretto by EM FORSTER and ERIC CROZIER , adapted from the story by HERMAN MELVILLE
Michael Berkeley introduces
Tim Albery 's recent production for English National Opera, conducted by DAVID ATHERTON and recorded in March at the London Coliseum
With Thomas Allen as Billy Budd
Philip Langridge as Vere Richard Van Allan as Claggart (In association with the John S. Cohen Foundation)
0 Simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 For details see page 41 0 FEATURE: page 15

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Eric Crozier
Story By:
Herman Melville
Introduces:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Tim Albery
Conducted By:
David Atherton
Unknown:
Thomas Allen
Unknown:
Billy Budd
Unknown:
Philip Langridge
Unknown:
Vere Richard van Allan
Source: Radio Times

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