King of the birds
Willy Decker directs Billy Budd in Vienna (*****) [stream]
In Billy Budd, Benjamin Britten saw an opportunity to write with librettist E.M. Forster about profound relationships between men: to symbolically evoke the power of homosexual love without rendering the sexual even explicit. After all, until 1967, homosexuality was a punishable a…
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