Composer: Benjamin Britten

Librettist: E M Forster and Eric Crozier, after Herman Melville's story

Director: Neil Armfield

Set Designer: Brian Thompson

Costume Designer: Carl Friedrich Oberle

Lighting Designer: Nigel Levings

Fight Advisor: Terry King

Production originated: 1998

Date of last performance: 1998

Chorus: 19 tenors, 26 basses

Actors / dancers: None

On-stage musicians: 4 percussionists

Edition: Boosey & Hawkes

No of containers: 3

A co-production with Opera Australia