Name: Albert Herring
Start: 2022-07-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Clonter Opera Theatre

Organization

Mise en scène

Michael McCaffery

Direction de choeur

Philip Sunderland

Décors

Bettina John

Costumes

Tenor

Daniel Kringer

Albert Herring

Soprano

Erin Rossington

Lady Billows

Rosalind Dobson

Miss Wordsworth

Jack Roberts

Mr Upfold

Mezzo-soprano

Frances Gregory

Nancy

Baritone

Thomas Chenhall

Clonter Opera

Albert Herring -  (Albert Hareng)

Congleton

Royaume-Uni

Clonter Opera Theatre

Public

Albert Hareng

Valide

Basse

Instrumentalist

Piano

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da Gambist

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Compositeur

Direction d'orchestre

Livret

Chorégraphie

Lumières

Danse

Acteur

Video

Dramaturgie

Traduction

Répétiteur

Maquillage

En charge de la production

Coiffure

Autre

Stage Manager

Choeur

Orchestre

Poet

Coach vocal

Prof

Photographer

Diffusion

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Ténor

Singer

Baryton-basse

Contre-ténor

Baryton

Contralto

Parlé

Voix d'enfant

Rôle muet

Alto

Continuo

Albert Herring Britten

Clonter Opera 2022

Albert Herring - Composer Benjamin Britten & Librettist Eric Crozier

Cast
Lady Billows (Erin Rossington), Florence Pike (Flora Birkbeck), Miss Wordsworth (Rosalind Dobson), Mr Gedge (Jordan Harding), Mr Upfold (Jack Roberts), Superintendent Budd (Thomas Stevenson), Sid (Thomas Chenhall), Albert Herring (Daniel Kringer), Nancy (Frances Gregory), Mrs Herring (Lydia Shariff), Emmie (Eirwen Roberts), Cis (Myome Mortimer-Davies), Harry (Samuel Horton)

Musical Director & Conductor - Philip Sunderland, Assistant Music Director - Robin Humphreys, Director - Michael McCaffery, Set and Costume Designer - Bettina John, Lighting Designer - Steven Benson, Wardrobe Supervisor & Costume Maker - Evelien Van Camp, Set Builder - Oliver Rock, Scenic Artist - Isabel Rock

Clonter Sinfonia
Violin 1 - Liz Rossi, Violin 2 - Laura Concar, Viola - Josephine Wells, Cello - James Heathcote, Bass - Aaron Berrera-Reyes, Flute - Jennifer George, Oboe - Bethan Roberts, Clarinet - Sarah Masters, Bassoon - Rosie Burton, Horn - Matthew Crossley, Timpani - Andrea Vogler, Harp - Richard Allen

For the Production

Assistant Music Director - Robin Humphreys, Assistant Costume Maker & Breakdown Artist - Nina Schmidl, Assistant Costume Maker Linda Savini

Stage Manager - Melody Wright, Deputy Stage Manager - Izzy Thurston, Assistant Stage Manager - Olivia Stone, Assistant Stage Manager - Olivia Middleweek.

Filmed by Steven Benson

Albert Herring - Showreel

Britten’s operatic comedy, written in 1947 with witty English libretto by Eric Crozier was freely adapted from a short story of stifling village life and rebellion “Le rosier de Madame Husson” by Guy de Maupassant.

Director Michael McCaffery and conductor Philip Sunderland will join forces with set and costume designer Bettina John and lighting designer Steven Benson to create a new production of Benjamin Britten’s hilarious portrait of English village life, which celebrates the best of British opera and offers the best possible showcase for rising stars.

Set in a fictitious Suffolk village of Loxley, Albert Herring is an obedient son who, in the lack of any virtuous female candidates for May Queen, gets crowned May King instead, and after drinking rum-laced lemonade escapes for a night of revelry and rebellion. The May coronation selection committee – the local Superintendent, the Mayor, the teacher and vicar – all terrorised by the autocratic local grandee Lady Billows. The teasing and flirtations of courting couple Nancy and butcher’s boy Sid fuel Albert’s determination to break free.

The World premiere of Albert Herring was mounted by the English Opera Group at Glyndebourne on 20 June 1947, conducted by Benjamin Britten with the idea to establish a permanent ensemble dedicated to creating and developing English opera.

Britten was in his thirties when he set this classic coming of age story to music on his return from America in 1946. Humour highlights the prejudice, intolerance and conformities of class within small-town England in the 1940s and its suffocation of young people needing to break free and find themselves. Director Giles Havergal (Opera North) said of the piece, “We associate the breaking out of youth with the 50s and Look Back in Anger, but it was already in the air. People like Britten knew what was going to happen.”

Brittens’ score for Albert Herring is said to contain some of his most moving, honest and staggeringly inventive music. Peter Hall described the moment near the end of the piece when everyone briefly believes Albert has died to be “one of the most shatteringly emotional bits of music in all opera”. The brilliant threnody is a parody of a great operatic outpouring of grief. Britten’s real genius is his seamless melody, the lyricism of the score and the wit of the music, which is genuinely funny in itself.

English

Albert Hareng by Britten, Du (2022/2022), Dirigé par Michael McCaffery,, Clonter Opera Theatre, Congleton, Royaume-Uni

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