An opera in three acts
Libretto by CEDRIC Cliffs based on the novel by Joseph Conrad
Music by John Joubert
First broadcast performance The New Opera Company production from the 1969 Camden Festival Cast in order of singing:
Members of the FINCHLEY CHILDREN'S MUSIC GROUP
NEW OPERA ORCHESTRA Leader, Lionel Bentley
Conductor. LEON Lovett
The action takes place In St. Petersburg and Geneva about 1912 ACT I
Scene 1. Student lodgings in St.
Petersburg
Scene 2. The same
ACT 2
Scene 1. A park In Geneva
Scene 2. Lasparov's flat in Geneva

Razumov, a student - Nigel DOUGLAS (tenor)
Volodya, a student - NEILSON TAYLOR (baritone)
Haldin, a student - WILLIAM McALPINE (tenor)
First policeman - Charles KERRY (bass)
Second policeman - JACK DONERT (boss-baritone)
General Mikulin, Chief of police - Robert LLOYD (bass)
Waiter. - RICARDO Gonzales (baritone)
A Swiss husband - CHARLES KERRY (bass)
A Swiss wife - Charlotte MORGAN (mezzo-soprano)
Madame Haldin - NOREEN BERRY (mezzo-soprano)
Natalia Haldin - Margaret Gale (soprano)
A schoolteacher (spoken role) - MOIRA Riley
Nikolai Lasparov - DAVID LENNOX (tenor)
Tekla, his daughter - NOELLE BARKER (soprano)
Sophia Kilurian - CLARE WALMESLEY (soprano)
Grisha - ERIC GARRETT (bass-baritone)
Sasha Petrov - HUGH SHEEHAN (baritone)
Irina Andreyev - MERIEL DICKINSON (mezzo-soprano)
Dmitri Andreyev, her husband - JOHN HAUXVELL (baritone)