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Billy Budd-8 December 1951 Evening 7.00pm

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Guest Conductor Benjamin Britten
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Thomas Matthews
Cast
Captain Vere Peter Pears
First Mate Rhydderch Davies
Second Mate Hubert Littlewood
Mr. Flint
Sailing Master 		Geraint Evans
Bosun Ronald Lewis
Midshipman Brian Ettridge
Midshipman Kenneth Nash
Midshipman Peter Spencer
Midshipman Colin Waller
Donald Bryan Drake
Maintop Emlyn Jones
Novice William McAlpine
Squeak
Ship's Corporal 		David Tree
Mr. Redburn
First Lieutenant 		Hervey Alan
Mr. Ratcliffe
Lieutenant 		Michael Langdon
Claggart
Master-at-Arms 		Frederick Dalberg
Red Whiskers Anthony Marlowe
Arthur Jones Alan Hobson
Billy Budd Theodor Uppman
Novice's Friend John Cameron
Dansker Inia Te Wiata
Cabin Boy Peter Flynn
Ratings, Officers, Midshipmen, Marines, Powder-monkeys, Drummers. The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Children's Chorus Children from Kingsland Central School
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Notes: Hervey Alan appears by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells.
Language: English
Durations: Act I: 7.05-7.42pm, Act II: 7.59-8.45pm, Act III: 9.03-9.53pm, Act IV: 10.08-10.34pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 8 December 1951 (in Royal Opera House Collections)