Albert Herring
From: Thursday, 4th October 2012
To: Wednesday, 10 October 2012
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Synopsis
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.
Our Review:
10 October 2012
Pre-empting Britten’s centenary year, and with a wide-ranging tour across the country over the next six weeks including performances in Snape Maltings, English Touring Opera’s vivid new production of Albert Herring ended its initial three-performance run at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio. Directed by Christopher Rolls it is set within three sides of Neil Irish’s gilded cage: an impressive, see-through, lattice delineating the sanded floorboards of the acting area, seeping through to the dark exterior.
Rolls referred to the cage in his programme note, and while it’s not too overpowering an image in performance, it’s as if the audience is big brother looking at a little society, headed by Lady Billows, which wants to reward virtue (shy Albert Herring, always under the thumb of his mother) but unprepared for the consequences of the reward being the wherewithal by which Albert (surreptitiously aided by Sid’s spiking of his...
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