The Conservatory’s Opera Department will present scenes from Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd to celebrate the current Oberlin College Libraries exhibition, "Melville's Billy Budd at 100."

This collaboration is part of the campus-wide commemoration of the 100th year since the publication of Herman Melville’s last unpublished novella, Billy Budd. Its complex editorial history and its impact on arts and culture are the subject of an exhibition in Terrell Special Collections Library that runs through December 20. In the exhibit, you will find the first edition of E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, Libretto for Billy Budd, Opera in Four Acts, Music by Benjamin Britten, London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1951, as well as publicity materials from American and U.K. productions.

All are welcome!