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The English Opera Group presents
'ALBERT HERRING '
Opera in three acts and five scenes
Libretto by Eric Crozier
Music by Benjamin Britten
(Continued in next column)
The English Opera Group
Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Hans Geiger )
Conducted by Norman Del Mar
From the Opera House, Cheltenham
The action of the comedy takes place during April and May of the year 1900 at Loxford, a small market town in East Suffolk
Act 1
Scene 1: The morning room in Lady Billows' house
Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's shop
8.35 Interval
8.45 Act 2
Scene 1: A marquee in the Rectory garden
Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's shop
9.45 Interval
9.55 Act 3
Mrs. Herring's shop

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Herring
Unknown:
Eric Crozier
Music By:
Benjamin Britten
Leader:
Hans Geiger
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar
Lady Billows, an elderly autocrat:
Joan Cross
Florence Pike, her housekeeper and companion:
Gladys Parr
Miss Wordsworth, head teacher at the church school:
Margaret Ritchie
Mr Gedge, Vicar of St Mary's:
Otakar Kraus
Police Superintendent Budd:
Norman Lumsden
Mr Upfold, Mayor of Loxford and butcher:
Roy Ashton
Sid, butcher's assistant:
Frederick Sharp
Nancy, a girl from the bakery:
Nancy Evans
Mrs Herring, owner of the green grocer's shop:
Catherine Lawson
Albert Herring, her son who runs the shop:
Peter Pears
Tiresome village children:Emmie:
Anne Sharp
Cis:
Marilyn Smead
Harry:
Paul Curthoys

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