Among the papers she gave him was the unfinished, previously-unheard-of draft. Weaver paid a visit to his granddaughter Eleanor Melville Metcalf in her New Jersey home.
Seventeen years after the death of Herman Melville – half beloved, half reviled author of “Moby Dick” – his first biographer Raymond M. This week, the focus is Herman Melville’s great unfinished novella “Billy Budd, Sailor” and Benjamin Britten’s “Billy Budd” adapted from the work in 1951. “Page to Opera Stage” looks at stories – real-life or fiction, old and new – that have inspired operas, and the ways these narratives have been edited and dramatized to fit a new medium.
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