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John Claggart | Billy Budd


  • Wiener Staatsoper (map)

Conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Director Willy Decker
Set Designer Wolfgang Gussmann
Costume Designer Wolfgang Gussmann

Edward Fairfex Vere, Kapitän der "Indomitable" Gregory Kunde
Billy Budd Vortoppmann Huw Montague Rendall
John Claggart Waffenmeister Brindley Sherratt
Mr. Redburn Adrian Eröd
Mr. Flint Wolfgang Bankl
Leutnant Ratcliffe Attila Mokus

"Evil knows about good, but good does not know about evil."

This quote from Franz Kafka would be an apt subtitle for Britten's Billy Budd. The satanic officer Claggart succeeds in making the angelic and therefore guileless sailor Billy Budd, who is loved by everyone, innocently guilty and thus destroyed.

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