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.

Cast/Performers

Josephine Barstow (Dame - Lady Billows), Alexander Sprague (Albert Herring), William Dazeley (Mr Gedge), Joseph Shovelton (Mr Upfold), Mary Hegarty (Miss Wordsworth)

Creatives/Company

Music: Britten
Company: Opera North
Conductor: Justin Doyle
Director: Giles Havergal
Design: Leslie Travers
Costume: Leslie Travers
Lighting: John Bishop

Albert Herring

Albert Herring (Opera or Operetta) production archive for QTIX code T0528734057. Details of all Albert Herring archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S1858

Archive Listings

15 May 13
  to
25 May 13
Grand Theatre and Opera House
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Performance Details => Venue archive

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