direct from the New Theatre, Cardiff
An opera in two acts
Libretto by E. M. FORSTER and ERIC CROZIER adapted from the story by HERMAN MELVILLE
Music by Benjamin Britten
Set in the heyday of the British Navy. this is a tragedy of innocent goodness destroyed, and of a conscience torn between humanity and a sense of duty.
BOYS OF ST TEILO'S HIGH SCHOOL AND THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF
SCHOOL. CARDIFF
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ANTHONY HOSE
WELSH PHILHARMONIA leader JOHN STEIN conducted by RICHARD ARMSTRONG Producer MICHAEL GELlOT Prologue and Act 1
8.35 Melville and Billy Budd
A talk by TONY TANNER , Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, author of several studies of American fiction.
8.50* Billy Budd
Act 2 and Epilogue