December 1951
Photograph of the Captain's Muster which closes the act: from left on the quarter-deck, after three unidentified officers, Captain Vere (Peter Pears); his Sailing Master, Flint (Geraint Evans); First Lieutenant Redburn (Hervey Alan); Second Lieutenant Ratcliffe (Michael Langdon) and four other officers. From left on lower deck, Billy Budd (Theodor Uppman) declaring "I'll follow you .... I'll die for you, Starry Vere" and the entire ship's company, among which the Master-at-Arms, John Claggart (Frederick Dalberg), can be discerned behind the seventh and eighth figures.
Photographer: Roger Wood
1 photograph
Black and white; 21 x 12.5 cm
Roger Wood/Royal Opera House
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