Britten: Billy Budd
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Billy Budd: Prologue 'I am an old man' (Vere) - 2
Billy Budd: Pull, my bantams! Pull, my sparrow-legs!...Who did that? (First Mate et al) - 3
Billy Budd: Guard boat! Indomitable! (Maintop et al) - 4
Billy Budd: First man forward! (Claggart et al) - 5
Billy Budd: Your name? - Billy Budd, sir (Claggart/Billy/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master) - 6
Billy Budd: Billy Budd, king of the birds (Billy/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant/Ratcliffe) - 1
Billy Budd: I heard your honour! (Claggart/Squeak/Novice's Friend) - 2
Billy Budd: Come along kid! Come along! (Novice's Friend/Novice/Chorus) - 3
Billy Budd: Christ! The poor chap, The poor little runt! (Billy/Dansker/Red Whiskers/Donald) - 4
Billy Budd: What's that? What's those whistles? (Billy/Donald/Claggart/First Mate/Second Mate/Bosun) - 5
Billy Budd: Starry Vere we call him (Donald/Billy/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Dansker/Bosun) - 6
Billy Budd: Boy! - Yes sir! (Vere/Boy) - 7
Billy Budd: Gentlemen, The King! (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master) - 8
Billy Budd: Ay, at Spithead the men may have had their grievances (Vere/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant) - 9
Billy Budd: We are, sir. Claggart is an able one...Land on the port bow, sir (First Lieutenant/Vere/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) - 10
Billy Budd: Blow her away, Blow her to Hilo (Red Whiskers/Chorus/Billy/Donald/Dansker) - 11
Billy Budd: We're off to Samoa (Donald/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Billy/Donald/Dansker) - 12
Billy Budd: Hi! You...A...A... (Billy et al) - 13
Billy Budd: Over the water, over the ocean (Chorus/Claggart) - 14
Billy Budd: Come here, Remember your promise (Claggart/Novice) - 15
Billy Budd: Billy!...Hist! Billy Budd! (Novice/Billy) - 16
Billy Budd: Dansker, old friend, glad to see you! (Billy/Dansker) - 1
Billy Budd: I don't like the look of the mist (Vere/First Lieutenant) - 2
Billy Budd: With great regret I must disturb your honour (Claggart/Vere) - 3
Billy Budd: Deck ahoy! Enemy sail on starboard bow! (Maintop et al) - 4
Billy Budd: Who'll volunteer to beard 'em in the smoke? (Vere et al.) - 5
Billy Budd: There you are again, Master-at-arms (Vere/Claggart/Boy) - 6
Billy Budd: O this cursed mist (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) - 7
Billy Budd: Claggart, John Claggart, beware! I'm not so easily deceived (Vere/Billy) - 8
Billy Budd: Master-at-arms and foretopman, I speak to you both (Vere/Claggart/Billy) - 9
Billy Budd: God o' mercy! (Vere/Boy) - 10
Billy Budd: Gentlemen, William Budd here has killed the Master-at-arms (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) - 11
Billy Budd: William Budd, you are accused... (First Lieutenant/Vere/Billy) - 12
Billy Budd: Poor fellow, who could save him? (First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) - 13
Billy Budd: I accept their verdict (Vere) - 14
Billy Budd: Look! Through the port comes the moon-shine astray! (Billy) - 15
Billy Budd: Here! Baby! (Dansker/Billy) - 16
Billy Budd: And farewell to ye, old Rights o' Man! (Billy) - 17
Billy Budd: Interlude - 18
Billy Budd: "According to the Articles of War..." (All except Vere) - 19
Billy Budd: Down all hands! And see that they go! (First Lieutenant et al) - 20
Billy Budd: We committed his body to the deep (Vere)
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