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Glyndebourne's Billy Budd in New York

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Reviewed at BAM: Howard Gilman Opera House, New York City on 7 February 2014
Britten, Billy Budd
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Sir Mark Elder, Conductor
Mark Padmore, Captain Vere
Michael Grandage, Director
Jacques Imbrailo, Billy Budd
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Brindley Sherratt, John Claggart
Duncan Rock, Baritone
Peter Gijsbertsen, Novice
Daniel Norman, Red Whiskers
Colin Judson, Squeak
Richard Mosley-Evans, Bosun
John Moore, Donald
Darren Jeffery, Lieutenant Ratcliffe
Jeremy White, Dansker
David Soar, Mr Flint
Stephen Gadd, Mr Redburn
Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová
***11
All the world’s a jest: Falstaff returns to Glyndebourne
***11
A strong new Figaro opens at Glyndebourne
****1
Glyndebourne's Saul still packs a punch 10 years on
*****
Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal
****1
Glyndebourne’s season opens with Rossini’s Barber of Seville
*****
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