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Orpha Phelan’s staging for Opera North needs more energy to fully cohere, but there are strong performances from Alan Oke as Vere and Roderick Williams as a sensitively sung BillyBilly Budd is not an opera that allows a director a enormous amount of dramatic licence. It’s tough to imagine a production that dispensed with the nautical connections altogether, or but Orpha Phelan’s new staging for Opera North shows few signs of pushing anywhere near to the boundaries of what Britten’s scenario defines. Related: How to be pleasurable? Getting to grips with Billy Budd Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com