Albert Herring
Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Eric Crozier, adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant
A Co-Production with Vancouver Opera
February 7, 9, 15, 2013, at 8 pm. Matinée February 17 at 2:30 pm
The Royal Theatre
In English with English surtitles
Above: Stephanie Marshall (Nancy) and Phillip Addis (Sid) talk about Albert Herring with Adam Sawatsky of CTV Vancouver Island.
Scenes from Pacific Opera Victoria's production of Albert Herring, with Lawrence Wiliford, Sally Dibblee, Stephanie Marshall, Phillip Addis, Susan Platts, Charlotte Corwin, Michael Colvin, Peter McGillivray, Giles Tomkins, Rebecca Hass. Leslie Dala conducts the Victoria Symphony. With Director Glynis Leyshon, Designer Patrick Clark.
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Conductor Timothy Vernon and Director Glynis Leyshon chat about Britten's effervescent comedy Albert Herring.
Overview
When every girl in town is a floozy, who are you going to turn to?
The town of Loxford needs a Queen of the May, but is fresh out of virtuous girls. The autocratic Lady Billows therefore appoints a King of the May – the bashful young grocer Albert Herring. But Albert, who lives a life of irreproachable dullness with his Mum, secretly yearns for the pleasures of love and the glamour of a night at the pub. With the help of his prize money, some spiked lemonade, and the inspiring example of rakish Sid and the beguiling Nancy, Albert sows a few wild oats, turning the town topsy-turvy.
With an intoxicating confection of daft village characters and the sweetest, most confused hero in opera, Britten's witty, effervescent comedy skewers small-town pomposity and slyly illumines the charms and trials of life in a goldfish bowl. Albert Herring is an exuberant satire, a scrumptious, slightly skewed slice of life.
Cast and Creative Team
- POV Artistic Director: Timothy Vernon
- Conductor: Leslie Dala
- Director: Glynis Leyshon
- Set and Costume Designer: Patrick Clark
- Lighting Designer: Michael Walton
- Choreographer: Jacques Lemay
- Assistant to the Artistic Director: Giuseppe Pietraroia
- Principal Coach: Robert Holliston
- Albert: Lawrence Wiliford
- Nancy: Stephanie Marshall
- Sid: Phillip Addis
- Lady Billows: Sally Dibblee
- Florence Pike: Susan Platts
- Miss Wordsworth: Charlotte Corwin
- Mrs. Herring: Rebecca Hass
- Vicar Gedge: Peter McGillivray
- Mayor Upfold: Michael Colvin
- Police Supt. Budd: Giles Tomkins
- Cis: Cassandra Lemoine
- Emmie: Emlyn Sheeley
- Harry: Ajay Parikh-Friese
- Harry (Understudy): Harrison Munschutz
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