- Composer:
- Denis ApIvor
- Libretto:
- Montagu Slater
- Based on the play by:
- F. Garcia Lorca
- Singers:
- BBC Chorus
- Musicians:
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Leader:
- Arthur Leavins
- Conducted By:
- Sir Eugene Goossens
- Yerma (soprano):
- Joan Hammond
- Juan her husband (tenor):
- Robert Thomas
- Maria, a young married woman (soprano):
- Dorothy Dorow
- Victor, a shepherd (baritone):
- John Cameron
- The Old Woman (mezzo-soprano):
- Johanna Peters
- Dolores, a midwife, suspected of supernatural powers (contralto):
- Rosemary Phillips
- The 'Crazy Girl,' her daughter (soprano):
- Marion Lowe
- A Friend of the crazy girl, a neighbour (mezzo-soprano):
- Janet Fraser
- A Young Girl (soprano):
- Doreen Murray
- Juan's Two Sisters (contraltos):
- Maude Baker
- Juan's Two Sisters (contraltos):
- Lesley Reid
- Three Vendors (tenors):
- René Soames
- Three Vendors (tenors):
- Andrew Gold
- Three Vendors (bass):
- Norman Walker
- Two Women, Dolores' companions (soprano):
- Doreen Murray
- Two Women, Dolores' companions (mezzo-soprano):
- Janet Fraser
- A Hermit (tenor):
- Leslie Fry
- Two Pilgrim Girls (sopranos):
- Marjorie Avis
- Two Pilgrim Girls (sopranos):
- Eleanor Capp
