Britten: Billy Budd

Directed by Michael Grandage

With John Mark Ainsley, Michael Wallace, Matthew Rose, Richard Mosley-Evans and John Moore

Captain Vere, an old man, is haunted by a moment in his life when he was tested and found wanting. Based on Herman Melville's novella of naval life in the late 18th Century, Benjamin Britten's 'Billy Budd' is a gripping reflection on good and evil, innocence and corruption.