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Claggart dislikes Billy Budd so that he falsely accuses him of fomenting mutiny. [Am. Lit: Herman Melville Billy Budd] See : Hatred Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | The performance features a young Peter Glossop as the guileless, innocent Billy Budd, Michael Langdon as the blackhearted master-at-arms, John Claggart, and Peter Pears as the damned-if-you-do-dainned-if-you-don't Captain Vere. Ian Bostridge's Captain Vere lacks gravitas (it's hard to imagine him inspiring his crew by example), while Gidon Saks makes the role of Claggart too simplistically evil - there's more subtlety in the master-at-arms's manoeuvrings than is allowed here. Mary Anne Redding Curator of Photography, Palace of the Governors Santa Fe It's like Budd-er, baby It is ironic perhaps that the opera Billy Budd, which takes places in an earlier era of seemingly endless war, is being performed here in Santa Fe at a time when we may have a combined modern equivalent of Edward Vere and John Claggart in the White House responsible for the deaths of over 4,000 American military personnel and countless numbers of innocent civilians. |
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