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Metropolitan Opera - Billy Budd 1978-79 Season
Poster ID: CL55500
Category: Music/Opera
Year: 1970s
Actor / Director: Benjamin Britten
Country: American
Approximate Size 60 x 39 inches
Condition: Very Good

1979-"It is worth remembering that “Billy Budd” is a product of the gay closet. It is an opera composed by a closeted gay man, to a libretto written by Forster, a closeted gay man, based on a novella by a man who scholars often suggest was closeted and that revolves around the attractions of men to other men. Though Melville protests, when describing the malevolent master-at-arms, Claggart, that his mysterious evil nature “partakes nothing of the sordid or sensual,” there is no mistaking the secret desire at the core of his hatred of Billy." By ZACHARY WOOLFE Published: NYTimes July 3, 2012 Some tears at edges and lower right corner, can be restored.

Keywords: Music,Stage,Production,Ship,Boat,Maritime,Sailor,Literary,Gay Interest
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