An opera in two acts
Libretto by E. M. FORSTER and ERIC CROZIER adapted from the story by HERMAN MELVILLE
Music by Benjamin Britten
Cast in order of singing:
Officers, sailors, powder monkeys. drummers, marines
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master,
Douglas Robinson
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN
Leader, Charles Taylor Conductor, GEORG SOLTI
Producer, Basil Coleman
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Act 1
Prologue
Scene 1. The main decs and quarter-deck of H.M.S. Indomitable
Scene 2 The Captain's cabio Scene 3- The berth-deck
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by JAMES REEVES
Mr. Reeves claims that the only criticism of any substantial value is the subjective criticism of poetry by poets themselves. He attacks those New Critics who ' appear to plunge into the analysis of a poem before determining whether it is worth analysing.'

Act 2
Scene 1. The main deck and quarter-deck
Scene 2. The Captain's cabin
Scene 3. A bay of the upper gun-deck
Scene 4. The main deck and quarter-deck
Epilogue

GEORCE STEINER , Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. talks about the last volume of Isaac Deutscher 's biography of Leon Trotsky , The Prophet Outcast, published recently followed by interlude at 10.55