Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt

Sara Kestelman as Princess Carolyn

Paul Nicholas as Richard Wagner

Ringo Starr as The Pope

Rick Wakeman as Thor

John Justin as Count d'Agoult

Fiona Lewis as Marie d'Agoult

Veronica Quilligan as Cosima

Nell Campbell as Olga Janina

Andrew Reilly as Hans von Bülow

David English as Captain

Felicity Devonshire as Governess

Murray Melvin as Hector Berlioz

Oliver Reed as Princess Carolyn's Servant

Aubrey Morris as Manager

Imogen Claire as George Sand

Kenneth Colley as Frederic Chopin

Rikki Howard as Countess

David Corti as Daniel

Anulka Dziubinska as Lola Montez

Andrew Faulds as Strauss

Ken Parry as Rossini

Otto Diamant as Felix Mendelsohn

Georgina Hale as Alma Mahler (uncredited)