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Vienna State Opera - Benjamin Britten - Billy Budd
Vienna State Opera
03 Nov 19:00 event_repeat
Until 22:00 3h

Vienna State Opera - Benjamin Britten - Billy Budd

Vienna State Opera Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna

One intermission

Main Stage

Short Summary

"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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