Libretto
Edward Morgan Forster and Eric Crozier
after Herman Melville
Premiere
1 December 1951, London (Covent Garden)
Cast
CAPTAIN VERE (tenor)
BILLY BUDD (baritone)
CLAGGART (bass)
MR REDBURN (baritone)
MR FLINT (bass-baritone)
LIEUTENANT RATCLIFFE (bass)
RED WHISKERS (tenor)
DANSKER (bass)
DONALD (baritone)
NOVICE (tenor)
SQUEAK (tenor)
NOVICE'S FRIEND (baritone)
CAPTAIN'S CABIB BOY (spoken role)
BOSUN )baritone)
1ST MATE (baritone)
2ND MATE (baritone)
MAINTOP (tenor)
ARTHUR JONES (baritone)
4 MIDSHIPMEN (boys voices)
CHORUS
Officers, sailors, powder monkeys, drummers, mariners
Place
Time
During the French war of 1797