sentences:  Stilwell sang Billy Budd in the premiere of Britten's "Billy Budd" at the Metropolitan Opera, directed by John Dexter, and The Lodger in the premier of Dominick Argento's "The Aspern Papers" alongside Frederica Von Stade and Elisabeth Soderstrom.He appears alongside Frederica von Stade in the landmark recording of "Pelléas et Mélisande" under the baton of Herbert von Karajan, and as the voice of Count Almaviva (from "Le nozze di Figaro") and Don Giovanni in the 1984 film, "Amadeus".On DVD, Stilwell can be seen in Götz Friedrich's film of "Falstaff" (with Karan Armstrong and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Sir Georg Solti, 1979), "La bohème" from the Met (with Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto, and José Carreras, in Franco Zeffirelli's production, 1982), and Robert Wilson's production of "Madama Butterfly" (2003).