Details

May Day is looming, and the small town of Loxford is in chaos. All the potential May Queens are morally unsuitable. Desperate, the locals decide a May King will have to do instead. They choose the blameless Albert Herring, from the greengrocers. He isn't keen, but stuck firmly under his mother's thumb, he'll do what he is told. However, after one rum-laced lemonade at the May Day ceremony, Albert disappears, and even greater chaos ensues. Britten's sharply satiric take on village life makes for a glorious and very English comedy. Sung in English. A revival of the 1985 production sponsored by Riggs and Co - International Private Banking. The performance lasts approximately two hours and fifty minutes including one interval.

Cast/Performers

Hal Cazalet (Albert Herring), Rita Cullis (Lady Billows), Susan Gorton (Florence Pike), Sarah Fox (Miss Wordsworth), Andrew Rupp (Mr Gedge), Peter Hoare (Mr Upfold), Brindley Sherratt (Superintendent Budd), Jeremy Carpenter (Sid), Louise Poole (Nancy), Frances McCafferty)

Creatives/Company

Music: Britten
Company(s): Glyndebourne Opera, Glyndebourne Touring Opera Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus
Conductor: Richard Farnes
Design(s): John Gunter, John Gunter
Director(s): Peter Hall, James Robert Carson (revival director)
Lighting: David Hersey (original lighting)

Albert Herring

Albert Herring (Opera or Operetta) production archive for QTIX code T01620916726. Details of all Albert Herring archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S1858

Archive Listings

5 Dec 02New Theatre
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Performance Details => Venue archive
28 Nov 02Regent Theatre
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Performance Details => Venue archive
21 Nov 02New Victoria Theatre
Woking, Surrey
Performance Details => Venue archive
14 Nov 02Theatre Royal
Norwich, Norfolk
Performance Details => Venue archive
7 Nov 02Milton Keynes Theatre
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Performance Details => Venue archive
31 Oct 02Theatre Royal Plymouth
Plymouth, Devon
Performance Details => Venue archive
19 Oct 02
  to
25 Oct 02
Glyndebourne
Lewes, East Sussex
Performance Details => Venue archive

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