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On January 15, more than fifty-three years after the world premiere of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, Bavarian State Opera mounted its first-ever performances of the work, given in the 1951 original version. Not even Munich's ill-advised production could hinder this premiere's enormous success, its musical accomplishments easily overshadowing director Peter Mussbach's muddled interpretation.
Taking Billy Budd out of its historical time frame is asking for trouble, as there are so many references in the E.M. Forster/Eric...
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