Opera News, November 1st, 2004
BRITTEN: Billy Budd
Shicoff Skovhus, Halfoarson; Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Runnides. No libretto. Orfeo C 602 033 D (3) (Qualiton, dist.)
It wasn't so long ago that we were still waiting for first recordings of some Britten operas, and here we have the fifth commercially available version of Billy Budd (sixth, if one counts a Venice production that was briefly available on Mondo Musica). Even more surprising, it makes the third recording of the original, supposedly superseded, four-act version. Perhaps conductors are coming to feel (as I do) that the revision sacrifices too mu...
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