Cast & Characters

The Cast

Roberta Alden: Patricia Racette
Sondra Finchley: Susan Graham
Elizabeth Griffiths: Jennifer Larmore
Elvira Griffiths: Dolora Zajick
Samuel Griffiths: Kim Begley
Gilbert Griffiths: William Burden
Clyde Griffiths: Nathan Gunn
Orville Mason: Richard Bernstein
Conductor: James Conlon

The Characters

Clyde Griffiths (baritone): A young American man.

Hortense (soprano): A beautiful young maid.

Grace Marr (soprano): A worker at Samuel Griffiths’ factory.

Roberta Alden (soprano): A pretty worker at Samuel Griffiths’ factory—later, Clyde’s fiancée.

Bella Griffiths (soprano): Clyde’s cousin, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth.

Elvira Griffiths (mezzo-soprano): Clyde’s mother, a missionary.

Elizabeth Griffiths (mezzo-soprano): Samuel’s wife.

Sondra Finchley (mezzo-soprano): A beautiful, wealthy woman. She is a close friend of the wealthy Griffiths family.

Young Clyde (boy soprano)

Samuel Griffiths (tenor): Clyde’s uncle, a wealthy industrialist.

Gilbert Griffiths (tenor): Clyde’s stuck-up cousin, son of Samuel and Elizabeth.

Reverend McMillan (tenor): A minister who visits Clyde before his execution.

Orville Mason (bass): District Attorney.