I'm pretty sure it's the Willy Decker production and the cast is as follows: Edward Fairfax Vere - Oleg Balashov Billy Budd - Yury Ivshin John Claggart - Johannes von Duisburg Dansker - Karen Akopov Mikhailovsky Theatre at the Hermitage
mikhailovsky.ru/en/afisha/performances/detail/225907/ Celebrating the centenary of the composer Edward Fairfax Vere - Oleg Balashov Billy Budd - Yury Ivshin John Claggart - Johannes von Duisburg Dansker - Karen Akopov Conductor - Mikhail Tatarnikov Libretto: E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier Stage Director: Willy Decker Stage Design: Wolfgang Gussmann Director of the revival: Sabine Hartmannshenn Music Director: Mikhail Tatarnikov The production of Wiener Staatsoper, Gmbh, 2001 Sets and Costumes produced by ART for ART Theaterservice, Gmbh, Vienna Billy Budd is performed at the Mikhailovsky Theatre by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited, London Billy Budd will be presented in Russia for the first time. The opera is one of the most important works in the musical legacy of Benjamin Britten, whose centenary will be celebrated in 2013. In presenting Britten’s opera to the Russian public, the Mikhailovsky Theatre is recreating the Vienna State Opera’s production of 2001.
Is it not strange if not downright disrespectful not to mention anything about this performance? When making such a production public surely all performers are credit due.
Very true -- copyright, I suspect. They certainly don't sound English to my (non-English) ears; more likely East Europe somewhere. The Glyndebourne video is much better, anyway.
This appears to be the 2001 production by Willy Decker at the Vienna Staatsoper. Neil Shikoff, Bo Skovhus, and Eric Halfvorson. Donald Runnicles conducting. It is also posted elsewhere on UA-cam, but it is nice to have it without the German titles.
Roger Brunyate it’s looks like the same production, but it’s a later performance with a different cast. The guy playing Billy has an accent you can cut with a knife.
@@brunyate the 2001 production in Vienna conducted by Donald Runnicles is far better. This performance has a different conductor and is a different version of the work to the one in Vienna. The 2001 Vienna production uses the 4 Act version whereas this Russian production is of the 2 Act version. Both versions work well.
It takes a bit of getting used to. It is not very clear visually but that could be the filming. Alot of words are not clear. In the 2001 Vienna production some of the singers have Scandinavian accents but the diction is good and the singers are able to make the words mean something.
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This is a GREAT production! I’m glad to learn so many fine versions of BB are appearing.
I'm pretty sure it's the Willy Decker production and the cast is as follows:
Edward Fairfax Vere - Oleg Balashov
Billy Budd - Yury Ivshin
John Claggart - Johannes von Duisburg
Dansker - Karen Akopov
Mikhailovsky Theatre at the Hermitage
Great music.
Edward Fairfax Vere - Oleg Balashov
Billy Budd - Yury Ivshin
John Claggart - Johannes von Duisburg
Dansker - Karen Akopov
Какая шикарная опера была!
mikhailovsky.ru/en/afisha/performances/detail/225907/
Celebrating the centenary of the composer
Edward Fairfax Vere - Oleg Balashov
Billy Budd - Yury Ivshin
John Claggart - Johannes von Duisburg
Dansker - Karen Akopov
Conductor - Mikhail Tatarnikov
Libretto: E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier
Stage Director: Willy Decker
Stage Design: Wolfgang Gussmann
Director of the revival: Sabine Hartmannshenn
Music Director: Mikhail Tatarnikov
The production of Wiener Staatsoper, Gmbh, 2001
Sets and Costumes produced by ART for ART Theaterservice, Gmbh, Vienna
Billy Budd is performed at the Mikhailovsky Theatre by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited,
London
Billy Budd will be presented in Russia for the first time. The opera is one of the most important works in the musical legacy of Benjamin Britten, whose centenary will be celebrated in 2013.
In presenting Britten’s opera to the Russian public, the Mikhailovsky Theatre is recreating the Vienna State Opera’s production of 2001.
Is it not strange if not downright disrespectful not to mention anything about this performance? When making such a production public surely all performers are credit due.
Very true -- copyright, I suspect. They certainly don't sound English to my (non-English) ears; more likely East Europe somewhere. The Glyndebourne video is much better, anyway.
This appears to be the 2001 production by Willy Decker at the Vienna Staatsoper. Neil Shikoff, Bo Skovhus, and Eric Halfvorson. Donald Runnicles conducting. It is also posted elsewhere on UA-cam, but it is nice to have it without the German titles.
Roger Brunyate it’s looks like the same production, but it’s a later performance with a different cast. The guy playing Billy has an accent you can cut with a knife.
@@brunyate the 2001 production in Vienna conducted by Donald Runnicles is far better. This performance has a different conductor and is a different version of the work to the one in Vienna.
The 2001 Vienna production uses the 4 Act version whereas this Russian production is of the 2 Act version. Both versions work well.
@@brunyate you're wrong. We can see de Vienna production on YT
It takes a bit of getting used to. It is not very clear visually but that could be the filming. Alot of words are not clear. In the 2001 Vienna production some of the singers have Scandinavian accents but the diction is good and the singers are able to make the words mean something.
Would be nice to know who's performing this.
That's the unhandsome Billy Budd of the history, ever. xD
Claggart - Johannes von Duisburg.
Это постановка Михайловского театра?
The only opera I've ever walked out on
a Russian co-production in the scenography of Mac Vickar. I understand now why the actors seem to be so rigid...