Possible Characters

EDIT: Updated Hero & Heroine

The Five (the elite), the antagonists:

These could be 'The Five' existing antagonists of the 'Young Banker'.
Depicting the various precipitations of abuse of wealth/power.
They could act both as opponents, allys, and teachers.
The Young Banker's fast rise would have caught their attention, and they would convene on what to do about it.

They have a loose agreement of non-interference with each other, that they are constantly breaking. They might try to pit the young Banker against each other, both to stop him, and to knock out the competition.

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Job D. Roachdlischt - Argentinan Bible Salesman, Polititian
-Sells religious books, funds churches, and happily accepts bribes to change laws.
-Bass
-Stereotype: The villainous Priest

(Details TBD)
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Major 'Pop' Enthroning - British (retired) Military Industrialist
-incites rebellions, supplies both sides
-Contralto
-Stereotype: The Witch, comic role

Major Enthroning is retired from the military, and has used her many connections to build an industrial empire. She is an old woman, that earned her nickname 'Pop' due to her relative closeness to her former troops.
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John Vladekef Resorcinol - Russian Oil Magnate
-pricefixing, pollution, suppresses new technology
-Baritone
-Stereotype: The sometimes helpful Villain

(Details TBD)
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Grigou Besmeurd Wrange - Dutch Banker 'The Old Banker'
-enslaves nations with debt
-Bass
-Stereotype: The villainous King

(Details TBD)
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Karol Ablenudzh - American Stockbroker, Carreer Woman
-uses her wealth to manipulate the stock market
-Mezzo Soprano
-Stereotype: The Mother, the older Woman, the "Trouser Role"

Karol Ablenudzh is a woman who reached her position by sheer ruthlessness. Stepping over anyone in her way. In that sense, she may qualify as a better 'Witch', but as she is younger than the Major, and tries to fit into a 'mens world' (as she sees it) she'd be the better candidate for the "Trouser Role".
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The protagonists:

'Young Banker'
-rose to power with good intentions but power corrupts
-Tenor
Stereotype: The Hero (?)

The Banker's background story goes here.
(This looks like a job for... somebody else!)
Sometimes a hero, sometimes a villain.
He stands at the crossroads:
Defeat the Five at their own game, and assume ultimate power.
Or expose the Five and their dealings, loose everything he has worked for in exchange for world peace & freedom.
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'Heroine' - middle class worker / revolutionary
-maybe works for one of the others, maybe in a relationship/love-triangle. Works hard to bring about the fall of 'The Five' and restore power to the people.
-Soprano
-Stereotype: The Heroine

She would be supported by the choir & audience. She is the voice of the people. By day she is a worker drone, by night she is an anonymous revolutionary, organizing the awakening of the masses. She tries to point out the various levels of control to the people, so they realize how to save themselves by accepting responsibility for their own lives instead of giving up their freedom for virtual safety.
She is vilified by the elite as a danger to society, and cast into the same pot as crazies & terrorists.
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The Neutral parties (The People):

Sung & acted by the Choir.

The people are the shapless majority. They want peace and prosperity.
They can either be antagonists (angry mob, henchmen, terrorists),
protagonists (peaceful protesters, friendly faces, helping hands),
or neutral (working, minding own business)

In my imagination the choir sings together to set the mood of the scene, but single voices will interject every once in a while commenting on what is happening. In favor, or against (symbolizing individuality). When there is a 'protest', a part of them will be the protesters, and one or two might be the henchmen (assassins, terrorists, agent-provocateurs). The protest may be swung around and become a mob.
Assassins would be a single choirmember that stops singing, and starts assembling a rifle, and then tries to take a potshot, blending back into the choir afterwards. Terrorists would be one or two members pealing out of the choir, running with sticks of 'dynamite', jumping to do their deed (landing behind/below stage, and returning to the choir.

Or something like that.

Stereotype information found in: http://www.atlantaopera.org/media/pdf/TAO_Ugly_Duckling_Education_Guide.pdf
(Useful Opera teaching guide)