A buoyant revival of Billy Budd

By Mark Valencia, 25 June 2017

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Reviewed at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape on 24 June 2017

Britten, Billy Budd

Opera North

Garry Walker, Conductor

Matthew Eberhardt, Director

Alan Oke, Captain Vere

Roderick Williams, Billy Budd

Brindley Sherratt, John Claggart

Oliver Johnston, Novice

Daniel Norman, Red Whiskers

Eddie Wade, Donald

Callum Thorpe, Lieutenant Ratcliffe

Conal Coad, Dansker

Dean Robinson, Mr Flint

Peter Savidge, Mr Redburn

David Llewellyn, Squeak

Mike Lock, Lighting Designer

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

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