Roles
Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 2 December 1970 (Conductor: Sir Colin Davis) |
---|---|---|
Faber, a civil engineer | robust baritone | Raimund Herincx |
Thea, his wife, a gardener | dramatic mezzo-soprano | Yvonne Minton |
Flora, their ward, an adolescent girl | light high soprano | Jill Gomez |
Denise, Thea's sister, a freedom fighter | dramatic soprano | Josephine Barstow |
Mel, a black writer | lyric bass-baritone | Thomas Carey |
Dov, his white lover, a musician | lyric tenor | Robert Tear |
Mangus, a psycho-analyst | high tenor baritone | Thomas Hemsley |
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