GOLDOVSKY Britten: Albert Herring (US Premiere, 1949) - PACO238
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description: overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fBRITTEN Albert Herring Live recording, 1949 Total duration: 2hr 3:04 Albert Herring - David Lloyd Lady Billows - Ellen Faull Mrs Herring - Lise Sorrell Sid - Irvin Nordquist Nancy - Helen Spaeth Berkshire Music Center Opera Department conducted by Boris Goldovsky 578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples/PACO238.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fWhen Albert Herring received its first performance at Glyndebourne on 20 June 1947, Benjamin Britten appeared to have turned from tragedy to comedy with almost disarming ease. After Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia, here was a chamber opera of lightness, wit and affectionate satire, freely adapted by Eric Crozier from Guy de Maupassant’s Le Rosier de Madame Husson. Yet beneath its surface sparkle lies one of Britten’s most persistent themes: the individual negotiating the pressures of a watchful, censorious community. The premiere was given by the English Opera Group, conducted by Britten himself, with Peter Pears in the title role. The action takes place in the fictional Suffolk market town of Loxford at the turn of the twentieth century. The annual May Day celebrations have reached a moral impasse. Lady Billows and her committee wish to crown a May Queen, but no local girl can satisfy their standards of virtue. Their solution is ingenious and absurd: they will crown a May King instead. The chosen emblem of innocence is Albert Herring, the shy greengrocer’s son, dutiful, repressed and watched over by a form…
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