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'''Billy Budd'' is a 1951 opera by Music/BenjaminBritten, based on Creator/HermanMelville's [[Literature/BillyBudd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]]. The libretto is by Creator/EMForster and Eric Crozier.
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Herman Melville's [[Literature/BillyBudd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]] has inspired an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) opera by Benjamin Britten]] (with a libretto supplied by Creator/EMForster).
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* HeroicBSOD: Vere's aria "I accept their verdict" after the court-martial. Wangst ensues.
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* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: For its 1951 premiere, ''Billy Budd'' was a four act opera. When Creator/TheBBC made plans to broadcast it in 1960, Britten restructured it into two acts and made various changes, including the removal of Vere's original introductory scene. The revised version was subsequently published and supplanted the original on stage as well, although the four act version is sometimes revised.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Vere in the Prologue ''and'' in the Epilogue.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Claggart. See above.
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* ChromosomeCasting: The cast and chorus is entirely male.
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To anyone who remembers the name of the ship Billy Budd just left, this gesture makes perfect sense. However, no one on deck remembers the information they were given five minutes ago, and instead, in their paranoia, they hear Billy Budd bidding farewell to a prime philosophical underpinning of UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. And just like that, Billy Budd marks himself as trouble, and especially in the eyes of Jimmy-Legs Claggart...
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To anyone who remembers the name of the ship Billy Budd just left, this gesture makes perfect sense. However, no one on deck remembers the information they were given five minutes ago, and instead, in their paranoia, they hear Billy Budd bidding farewell to a prime philosophical underpinning of UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. And just like that, Billy Budd marks himself as trouble, and especially in the eyes of Jimmy-Legs Jemmy-Legs Claggart...
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* TheMaleIngenueMustBeATenor: Rare aversion, Billy's a baritone.
** It had a reason: Peter Pears, the composer’s long time partner, was in the age perfect for Vere, so the captain got the tenor part.
** Played straight with the Novice
** It had a reason: Peter Pears, the composer’s long time partner, was in the age perfect for Vere, so the captain got the tenor part.
** Played straight with the Novice
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** It had a reason: Pears was in the age perfect for Vere, so the captain got the tenor part.
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** It had a reason: Pears Peter Pears, the composer’s long time partner, was in the age perfect for Vere, so the captain got the tenor part.
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Herman Melville's [[Literature/BillyBudd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]] has inspired an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) opera by Benjamin Britten]].
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Herman Melville's [[Literature/BillyBudd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]] has inspired an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) opera by Benjamin Britten]].Britten]] (with a libretto supplied by Creator/EMForster).
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To anyone who remembers the name of the ship Billy Budd just left, this gesture makes perfect sense. However, no one on deck remembers the information they were given five minutes ago, and instead, in their paranoia, they hear Billy Budd bidding farewell to a prime philosophical underpinning of TheFrenchRevolution.UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. And just like that, Billy Budd marks himself as trouble, and especially in the eyes of Jimmy-Legs Claggart...
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Herman Melville's [[BillyBudd [[Literature/BillyBudd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]] has inspired an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) opera by Benjamin Britten]].
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The opera's prologue opens with an aged Captain Edward Fairfax Vere remembering his life, his time in the wars, and his service as captain of the HMS ''Indomitable.'' Of all the thorny situations of good and evil he's witnessed, this has haunted him more than any other. In the summer of 1797, the HMS ''Indomitable'' sails the seas. Aboard there is great tension and anger: the officers are sadistic bullies, none more so than Master-at-Arms Claggart, and they're all paranoid of falling to mutiny. As well they should be, as the sailors are brutally punished and harbor resentments against the officers, growing more bitter every day. One day, a boat of theirs heads out, and returns, having "impressed" (that is to say, kidnapped) three new sailors off of a humble British merchant ship, the ''Rights O' Man.'' Of these three, two of them are wretched and miserable, but the third, a handsome and strapping youth named Billy Budd, is delighted at the prospect of serving in the Navy. As a foundling, this is his best chance of promoting himself to a higher station, and he adores sea life and all that comes with it. With a light heart he gladly sings "Farewell, old life! Farewell, O ''Rights O' Man!''"
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* DepravedHomosexual: Claggart. Also in the book, but here even more, even calling Budd "Beauty" and encouraging him to mind his looks.
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* {{Angrish}}: Immediately after [[spoiler: Billy is hanged,]] the crew abandons speech entirely, singing in wordless, guttural grunts to convey their fury.
* DepravedHomosexual: Claggart. Also in the book, but here even more, even calling Budd "Beauty" and encouraging him to mind hislooks.looks, and spending an aria ruminating over his beauty, his handsomeness, and how desirable he is.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: Claggart is a ''basso profondo'', much like Hagen. This is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], however, with the man in charge of whipping the novice. His voice is very deep, and he's in charge of the ship's brutal punishments, but he begs Claggart to go easy on the boy, and treats the novice with kindness and tenderness. It seems like he's JustFollowingOrders.
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* TheMole: Squeak initially serves this role among the men, as Claggart's eyes, ears, and hands. The Novice, so broken in spirit after his whipping, agrees to do whatever dirty work Claggart wants as long as he never gets whipped again.
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* OminousFog: Vere curses the fog that obscures the French frigate from their sight. But his dread of the fog isn't supernatural -- after the men have been riled up for a good sea-battle with their hated enemies, for the fog to descend suddenly and deny them their action has put everyone on edge, and he fears somebody will snap.
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* WarriorPoet: Vere. He opens and closes the play with his mournful and very poetic signing.
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Herman Melville's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd [[BillyBudd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]] has inspired an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) opera by Benjamin Britten]].
