- Composer:
- Benjamin Britten
- Librettist:
- E.M. Forster
- Librettist:
- Eric Crozier
- Singers:
- Welsh National Opera Chorale (men's voices)
- Chorus-master:
- Julian Smith
- Musicians:
- Welsh Philharmonia Orchestra
- Orchestra leader:
- John Stein
- Conductor:
- Richard Armstrong
- Edward Fairfax Vere, Captain of HMS Indomitable:
- Nigel Douglas (tenor)
- First mate:
- Ralph Hamer (bass)
- Second mate:
- Peter Massocchi (bass)
- Mr Flint, Sailing Master:
- Richard van Allan (bass)
- Bosun:
- Nicholas Folwell (baritone)
- Donald, a sailor:
- Henry Newman (baritone)
- Maintop:
- Neville Ackerman (tenor)
- Novice:
- Arthur Davies (tenor)
- Squeak, a ship's corporal:
- Charles Lewis (tenor)
- Mr Redburn, First Lieutenant:
- Julian Moyle (baritone)
- Lieutenant Radcliffe:
- Geoffrey Moses (bass)
- John Claggart, Master-at-Arms:
- Forbes Robinson (bass)
- Red Whiskers, an impressed man:
- Stuart Kale (tenor)
- Arthur Jones, an impressed man:
- Gordon Whyte (baritone)
- Billy Budd, foretopman:
- Thomas Allen (baritone)
- Novice's friend:
- Gareth Rhys-Davies (baritone)
- Dansker, an old seaman:
- Frank Olegario (bass)
- Cabin boy:
- David Hatter (speaking role)
- Voice off:
- Rhys Devlin (bass)
