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. Sung in English

Cast/Performers

Josephine Barstow (Dame), Katie Bray, William Dazeley, Amy Freston, Richard Mosley-Evans, Claire Pascoe, Dominic Sedgwick, Heather Shipp

Creatives/Company

Music: Britten
Company: Opera North
Director(s): Giles Havergal, Elaine Tyler-Hall (associate director), Tim Claydon (movement)
Conductor: Garry Walker
Design: Leslie Travers
Costume: Leslie Travers
Lighting: John Bishop