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LevelItem

ReferencePHPN/3/1/49

Artist / Photographer

Wood, Roger

Title

Production photograph of Billy Budd, Act III, scene 1

DateDecember 1951

DescriptionPhotograph of the ship's company preparing to engage with the enemy but delayed by poor visibility. Standing centre and a shade forward of the officers ranged along the quarter-deck, Captain Vere (Peter Pears) raises his telescope to check the reported approach of a French sail. First left along the row of oficers beside him is the Sailing Master, Ratcliffe, (Geraint Evans), First Lieutenant Redburn (Hervey Alan) and on Vere's left, also holding a telescope, Second Lieutenant Flint (Michael Langdon). Far left below, the Sailing Master, Claggart (Frederick Dalberg) turns aside bareheaded, his attempt to address the Captain thwarted in the urgency of the moment
Photographer: Roger Wood

Extent1 photograph

Physical DescriptionBlack and white; 14 x 9.5 cm mounted in presentation album

CopyrightRoger Wood/Royal Opera House

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