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Albert Herring Definition / Albert Herring Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Albert Herring is a comic operaComic opera is a subcategory of opera, and denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature. Albert Herring is a true comic opera with a lightness of touch rarely found in Britten’s output. Albert Herring is a comic opera set in the imaginary East Suffolk town of Loxford at the turn of the 20th century. www.elresearch.com /Albert_Herring   (266 words)

Albert Herring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Herring is a comic opera by Benjamin Britten. Written as a companion piece for his serious opera The Rape of Lucretia, the libretto, by Eric Crozier, is taken from Guy de Maupassant's story Le Rosier de Madame Husson. Albert Herring is in some ways reminiscent of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan and in some ways that of Richard Strauss. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Herring   (168 words)

Opera Theater Press Releases Albert Herring is sponsored by the Oberlin Conservatory Opera Theater program (www.oberlin.edu/operathe) and produced in cooperation with the Oberlin College Theater and Dance Program (www.oberlin.edu/thedance) with support from the Louis C. Sudler Fund. Albert's friend Sid teases him about his perpetual submission to his mother, suggesting that it is time to break free of her control, and when Sid and his sweetheart Nancy resolve to meet at night, Albert begins to wonder what he is missing in his "virtuous" life. Albert Herring was the first work written for this group, which became the house company for the Aldeburgh Festival and was involved in the premieres of all Britten's later operas apart from Billy Budd and Gloriana. www.oberlin.edu /operathe/press/03-04/albertherring.html   (1225 words)

Albert Herring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Benjamin Britten, the composer of the dark and brooding Peter Grimes and Billy Budd, is not a composer often associated with sparkling farce. The set is dominated by portraits of Victoria and Albert, and the denouement of the Victorian age is mirrored in the plot of the tale. The presentation of the May King award, by the queen bee of the village, Lady Billows (portrayed with splendid farcical comedy by Katie C. Lacie), is as hilarious and insightful as Falstaff's notorious denunciation of honor, or his paean to the splendor of his mighty belly. www.citypaper.net /articles/012199/mus.review.shtml   (454 words)

Guardian | Albert Herring On the surface, Britten's Albert Herring is a knockabout pastoral farce, with its story of Albert's alcohol-fuelled journey of self-discovery after his coronation as the May King of Loxford. Albert's transformation begins as he drinks his lemonade laced with rum - a moment Britten dramatises by quoting from Wagner's Tristan. It's an ending that reveals the fakery of the community's moralising, as Albert is released from the caricature of the village idiot, and becomes an immodest, immoral, and likeble character. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4529159-110430,00.html   (367 words)

BU Bridge Arts Dept. - Week of 5 February 1999 Set in April and May of 1900, during the final year of Queen Victoria's reign, in the imaginary town of Loxford in Britten's native East Anglia, Albert Herring is about the coming of age of a sweet, simple, obedient lad of 22, and it pokes fun at self-serving village dignitaries and at all things British. The female cast members of Albert Herring are wearing foundation garments outside their clothing to help them establish breath control in the costumes they will wear during performances. Unable to find a suitable candidate to be the annual Queen of the May, the local dignitaries elect Albert -- a paragon of all that is good -- to be King of the May. Bemoaning young people's general lack of virtue and modesty, the pompous town officials determine to teach the village girls a lesson. www.bu.edu /bridge/archive/1999/02-05/arts.html   (489 words)

Albert Herring impresses, amuses and delights Albert Herring, conducted by Steven Smith and with stage direction by Jonathon Field, opened Wednesday night to an enthusiastic response. Albert Herring is a chamber opera, which means essentially that every role plays a major part; there are too many exceptional individuals in this production to mention them all. Albert Herring is a thoroughly enjoyable, musically rich and intelligent show. www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2004/3/19/arts/article1.html   (624 words)

Guardian | Britten: Albert Herring; Gilchrist, Hickox et al Of course, the score is full of musical craftsmanship on the highest level, and of course, Eric Crozier's libretto is a wonderfully skilful piece of work, stuffed with literary allusions and sly humour: it artfully transposes the original Guy de Maupassant short story from Normandy to a fictitious Suffolk village in the early 1900s. Albert Herring was the second of Britten's chamber operas. In Herring it is the whole confection that makes it the epitome of parochial English opera: limited in its horizons, narrow in its emotional range. www.politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4599863-110760,00.html   (432 words)

University Opera staging Britten's comic masterpiece 'Albert Herring'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Set in the small English town of Loxford, "Albert Herring" tells the story of young Albert, the upstanding son of an overbearing widow. Though teased by the town's children, Albert reluctantly accepts the honor at the insistence of his mother and the town doyenne, Lady Billows. "Albert is trying to figure out how to become a grown-up, but so far he's always been tied to his mother's apron strings," Jolly Stewart noted. record.wustl.edu /archive/2000/03-16-00/articles/opera.html   (477 words)

iStyleStore.com - Music : Britten: Albert Herring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) There are many echoes of Grimes, and Albert is represented by a horn call reminiscent of the one in Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings; he even whistles it as he runs off. Based on a Guy de Maupassant story, Albert Herring is the story of a simple village boy who breaks out of the constraints imposed by his controlling mother and the village elders. This is a budget-priced reissue on Naxos of the performance of 'Albert Herring' previously available from the now-defunct Collins Classics, originally issued in 1997. www.istylestore.com /B000083O1D/Britten_Albert_Herring.html   (627 words)

Benjamin BRITTEN - Albert Herring [WH]: Classical CD Reviews- Sept 2003 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Albert’s crown, we learn, has been found in a sorry state on the road to Campsey Ash. Of course it’s possible to listen to and enjoy (or not) Albert Herring without paying the slightest attention to all this, just as it was possible to laugh at the BBC Home Service’s Round the Horne and remain in ignorance of what the subject matter really was. The part of Albert was written of course with Peter Pears’ voice in mind, but the idea of Pears as a teenager seems ludicrous when measured against the other portrayals, though he is very convincing in a leering kind of way once Albert has, after his own fashion, come out. www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Sept03/Britten_Herring_hedleyNaxos.htm   (1239 words)

Independent Online Edition > Reviews : app3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) As it stands, Albert Herring offers some of the most deftly drawn supporting characters in opera; each given admirable pathos and individuality by Lloyd, each cast with a singer of the appropriate age – though this can have its downside, vocally – and each entirely believable in this modern setting. Albert – his tongue loosened by the fatal combination of booze and being forced to sit in a throne too artfully kitsch to be realistic – turns out to be less than simple after all. It says a lot for Lloyd's feminist credentials that she and Ethna Robinson (Mrs Herring) manage to show some sympathy for Albert's mother – who, if she really has been fetishising a perfectly capable boy as an idiot, is pretty unpleasant. enjoyment.independent.co.uk /music/reviews/article203579.ece   (902 words)

Amazon.com: Music: Britten - Albert Herring / Gillett, Barstow, Gritton, Palmer, D. Jones, Stuart Kale, Finley, Robert ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Albert Herring was premiered at Glyndebourne on June 20, 1947, with Britten conducting and Peter Pears in the title role; it was the inaugural production for the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948. Albert Herring is very much an ensemble opera -- somewhat like Puccini's Gianni Schicchi -- relying on the interplay of many different lines and ideas to sustain its musical interest, rather than extended moments of solo singing. Albert's "drunk" scene in the second act is perhaps the only proper aria in the whole piece. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003W1Q/seveejksa-sea-musicasin-20/ref=nosim   (1171 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Both emphasise food (in Herring, it's the fruit that was unavailable in the post-war years when it was written), and both include a cheerful heterosexual romantic couple and a mock/mistaken threnody. Failing to find a suitable young woman in the area, she is persuaded by the local worthies to have Albert Herring, the dim, mother-dominated youth from the greengrocers, as the May King. Albert returns, with a story of vague but undoubtedly scandalous excesses -- only alcohol is mentioned explicitly, but there is clearly more. www.helsom.demon.co.uk /opera/Herring.txt   (719 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Opera Classics - Britten: Albert Herring / Bedford, et al at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Sid, sick of seeing Albert live his life tied to his mother, secretly spikes the Albert's lemonade at the King of the May banquet and Albert goes on a bit of a bender- and grows up and finally severs the apron strings in the process. Florence, unsure of her position, is rude to them but the more assured Lady Billows is unintentionally condescending- that they may be equals is an idea that would never occur to her. Albert Herring has the rare distinction of being pretty much the only comic English opera outside the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan to have entered regular repertory- and this recording is a top notch effort and well worth a listen. www.epinions.com /content_173007867524   (1364 words)

Guardian | Albert Herring Instead of nostalgia, and the cuteness with which Britten depicts nerdy Albert's rebellion against the strictures of village society, she offers a contemporary parable about moral hypocrisy and repression in parochial middle England. Her production, however, is closer to a dissection of Thatcherite social values. You realise with a shock that Lady Billows and Albert's mollycoddling mother look almost interchangeable at the ceremony during which Albert, infantile in white shorts, is crowned May King. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4353531-108884,00.html   (400 words)

Albert Herring It is eventually decided that no girl is virtuous enough but that Albert Herring, a backward boy, only son of Mrs Herring, who keeps the greengrocer's, should be made May King. Sid, the butcher's boy, suggests that Albert should break free from his mother's control, and when he and Nancy, from the baker's, resolve to meet at night, Albert is bound to wonder at what he is missing. Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring followed The Rape of Lucretia and was the first work to be written for the newly established English Opera Group, which was responsible for the first performances at Glyndebourne and then at the newly founded Aldeburgh Festival. www.naxos.com /newdesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Albert_Herring.htm   (272 words)

fsunews.com - FSU Opera presents Benjamin Britten's 'Albert Herring'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) The current production, "Albert Herring," was composed in 1947 by Benjamin Britten, a British born composer whose works are considered some of the greatest English-language operas of the 20th century. "Albert Herring," a satire on country manners, was completed just a few years after Britten had returned to England from living in the United States. The first production of "Albert Herring" by Florida State Opera will be conducted by Douglas Fisher, Professor and Director of Opera Activities at Florida State University, and the stage director for the production is Matthew Lata, an Associate Professor and Stage Director for the Florida State Opera. www.fsunews.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/04/4189590cbb088   (311 words)

ALBERT HERRING by Benjamin Britten Directed by Christopher Newton A COC Ensemble Studio Presentation at the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) A free adaptation of a Guy de Maupassant story, Albert Herring is a very English opera, steeped as it is in Suffolk country atmosphere and manners. Herring, the Vicar, the Police Superintendent, the Mayor, and the young people (including Albert, rough-hewn Sid, and shy Nancy) are all drawn from English life. Taken at face value, Albert Herring is genteel and comic, though it is possible to interpret it as an allegory of a young man attempting to break free from superstition and conservatism. www.stageandpage.com /albert%20herring.htm   (508 words)

Albert Herring: Longwood Opera Albert is clearly dominated by his mother, and the arrival of Sid's girlfriend Nancy only serves to make him nervous and uncomfortable. When they have left, the committee comes to inform Albert of his election as King of the May. Albert is less pleased by the honour and prize of 25 pounds than his mother. Albert Herring was written in 1947 as the first work for the newly formed English Opera Group, which was comprised of colleagues dedicated to the advancement of contemporary English opera. home.earthlink.net /~brumit/synopses/albert.html   (484 words)

Albert Herring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Albert Herring (1947) may be the most British of all Benjamin Britten's operas: full of drolly eccentric character roles like those Ealing Studio movies that the Coen brothers and others are mining for remakes these days. Albert Herring, a shy, virginal shop assistant, gets crowned King of the May when -- to general embarrassment -- no appropriately virtuous May Queen can be found, a signal for him to assert himself and break out of the stuffy village hierarchy dominated by the vicar, the mayor and the formidable Lady Billows. Albert Herring, Fri., April 23, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., April 25, 3 p.m., $20, Temple University Opera Theater, Tomlinson Theater, 13th and Norris sts., 215-204-1122. www.citypaper.net /articles/2004-04-22/artpicks2.shtml   (193 words)

Boosey & Hawkes Opera Eventually none is left, and instead a May King is proposed and Albert Herring — blameless son of a widowed shopkeeper — is chosen. Up turns Albert, however, to face a telling off for going absent without leave and shocked reactions from his elders and betters when his carousing in public houses is revealed. Albert, of course, is unashamed, and celebrates his new-found independence by inviting three local kids into the greengrocers to share some peaches, tossing his May King's orange blossom wreath into the audience as a final gesture. www.boosey.com /pages/opera/moreDetails.asp?musicID=3871   (322 words)

CU's 'Albert Herring': A Show of Many Virtues (washingtonpost.com) Albert Herring, the greengrocer's son who is good to his mother, strong as a horse and clean as new-mown hay. Loxford could crown a King of May! And so the plot of Benjamin Britten's delightful opera "Albert Herring" unfolds as Albert, to his exquisite mortification, is dressed in white and forced to attend a celebration of his virtue and chastity. Gedge the vicar, Issachah Savage as the mayor, Gabriel Maricich as Superintendent Budd, Jessica Jaeger as Nancy, Patrick Davey as Sid and Theresa Kenny as Albert's "mum." www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A48512-2005Mar18.html?sub=AR   (372 words)

UI Opera Theater presents Benjamin Britten's ‘Albert Herring’ for its summer production Inspired by Sid and Nancy, a rebellious young couple who are unrestrained in their enjoyment of life, he takes the prize money and goes "off on a bust," scandalizing the town when he disappears but enjoying himself thoroughly. Herring, Albert's mother, will be sung by Barbara Buddin, a former student who has appeared in past productions of the Opera Theater, including lead roles in "Carmen," "Il Trovatore," "Cavalleria Rusticana," "Dido and Aeneas" and "Sister Angelica." Tickets for "Albert Herring" are $12 ($7 for UI students, youth under 18 and senior citizens), and are available from the Hancher Auditorium Box Office. www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/1999/july/0709herring.html   (1199 words)

Albert Herring Britten's Albert Herring mauserte sich in einer Produktion der Neuen Oper Wien zu einem durchaus anregenden Opernabend. Albert Herring, das ist eine dezent gesetzte Speerspitze gegen das moralisierende, kleinbürgerliche Establishment eines englischen Städtchens um 1900, wo man Tugendhaftigkeit noch hoch hält und damit – wie könnte es anders sein – auf die Nase fällt. Albert Herring, der von den Moralaposteln auserkorene Empfänger des Tugendpreises als „Maikönig“ – weil sich das Wahlkomitee auf keine „Mai-Königin“ hatte einigen können – ein Muttersöhnchen par excellence, emanzipiert sich durch einen Vollrausch und bringt die abgehobene Moral-Idylle derart wieder auf den Boden der Realität zurück. www.operinwien.at /werkverz/britten/aalbert.htm   (650 words)

The Aria Database - Database Search Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Synopsis : At the celebration to name Albert Herring as the virtuous King of May, Lady Billows makes a speech in which she announces Albert as the foremost example of virtue in Loxford. She admonishes the other children present that they should follow Albert's example and resist the temptations that come upon them. At the end of her speech, she loses her notes and finishes with several aborted patriotic sayings. www.aria-database.com /cgibin/aria-search.pl?opera=Albert+Herring&r   (1040 words)

Britten: Albert Herring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Even though the Naxos reissue does not include a libretto - as is customary with most of their opera releases - the diction of most of the singers is exemplary and one has little difficulty understanding the witty dialog written by one of Britten's favorite and most skillful librettists, Eric Crozier. The pacing by Britten specialist Steuart Bedford is geared to the comedy inherent in the libretto; it tends to move right along except for the obvious moments of repose, as in the threnody for the presumed-dead Albert in the last act, or for Albert's big monolog, 'Albert the Good,' in the second act. There are some who lambaste 'Albert Herring,' Britten's only full-length comedy, as too provincial, too trivial in subject to rank as one of his best operas, but I strongly disagree. www.spywareguide.com /shop/az_detail_B000083O1D.html   (832 words)

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