On the London Stage - In 'Billy Budd,' a Cry for Kindness Pierces a Haunting Moral Grayness

NYTimes.com: An inky darkness suffuses the stage at the start of the thunderous new Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of “Billy Budd,” and, even when the stage eventually brightens, a shuddering awareness of man’s capacity for evil hovers in the mist.