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.

Creatives/Company

Music: Britten
Company(s): Opera Theatre Company, Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra
Conductor(s): Nicholas Cleobury, Oliver Gooch (assistant)
Director: Michael Barker-Caven
Design: Adam Wiltshire
Lighting: Declan Randall