the novella by Herman Melville
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Set, lighting designer (after sets by John Piper)
Projections
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Cast
Edward Fairfax Vere, Captain of H.M.S. Indomitable
First Mate
Second Mate
Mr. Flint, sailing master
Sailor
Bosun
Donald, a sailor
Maintop
Novice
Squeak, a ship's corporal
Mr. Redburn, first lieutenant
Mr. Ratcliffe, second lieutenant
John Claggart, master-at-arms
Red Whiskers, an impressed man
Arthur Jones, an impressed man
Billy Budd, an impressed man and able seaman
Novice's Friend
Dansker, an old seaman
Cabin Boy
Gunner's Mate
Show Dates
Time and Place
Aboard H.M.S. Indomitable, a British man-of-war, during the French wars of 1797
Scenes
Media
Acknowledgements
The revival of this production is made possible, in part, by a grant from IBM Corporation.
Notes
Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios
Costumes from the Royal Opera, Covent Garden
San Francisco Boys Chorus
Louis Magor, Director
Mark Bemesderfer
Pascual Benito
Adam Brown
Gabriel Brown
Conal Byrne
Jim Dobson
Jacob Donham
Matthew Donham
Jason Duty
Jaime Fink
David Greenbaum
David La May
Sirr Less
Conor Massey
Darren Massey
Ryan Massey
Ian McCullough
Jeff Pulley
Michael Raznick
Jeffrey Rice
Jesse Schwartzburg
Thai Low
Caen Thomason-Redus
Sam Yen
Erik Yosten
Alexi Zemsky
Tony Zwerdling
SUPERNUMERARIES (selected from the following list)
Gene Angell
Richard Ares
Aaron Baca
James Baca
Nathan Baca
Sean Baca
Stephen Bartlett-Re
Franklin Bauer
Steve Bauman
Todd Beauchamp
Donald Bechtel
Robert Belt
Noah Berry
Ryan Boyd
Brandon
Vincent Brooks
Gene Cikota
David Clover
Rudy Cook
Burton Covel
Jared Danielson
Daniel DeJarnatt
Alan Dettmering
Marc Dettmering
Scott Dettmering
Kermit DuVal
William Easley
David Elkind
Peter Felleman
Peter Fodor
Raymond Franke
Mickey Frettoloso
Peter Garadis
Tom Garadis
Albert Goodwyn
Paul Grosvenor
Steven Harper
Rodger Heglar
William Higgins
Mark Huelsmann
Donavan Hughes
John Janonis
Chris Judge
Julius Karoblis
Joe Kelley
Patrick Kelson
Elliot Koppel
Ken Korpi
Michael Kurtz
George LaLumiere
Ramon Martinez
Eugene Masciarelli
Conor Massey
Darren Massey
Berri McBride
Richard McGeary
Arnold McGilbray
Allan Miller
Matt Miller
John Howard Moore
John L. Moore
Edwin Morse
Malcolm Mosher
Paul Newman
Chris Noll
Robert Peel
Harrison Pierce
Michael Pitkin
Jonathan Poli
Thaddeus Przybranowski
Ian Reddoch
Alex Reich
Marc Reich
Christopher Rice
Paul Ricks
Steven Rosen
Ken Schlobohm
Arthur B. Simon
James Sizemore
Geoff Skidmore
Bill Sommer
Ray Souza
Jerry Steimle
Don Studebaker
Tom Taffel
Karl Thon
John Varvarousis
Carter Weeman
Brett Weil
Rick Weil
Gary Wendt-Bogear
Joe Willis