Britten's maritime masterpiece about repressed passions and the weight of guilt is performed in Norway for the very first time. Annilese Miskimmon sets Billy Budd in the claustrophobic, hard masculine environment of a submarine.
When a happy, industrious and strikingly handsome young man joins the HMS Indomitable, everyone is drawn to him. The new crewman's only imperfection is that he stammers when stressed, a fact that the hardened Master-at-Arms is all too happy to exploit.
