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Benjamin Britten, Albert Herring
- Flor-ence! Tell The Midwife!
- Doctor Jessop's Midwife
- I Hope We're Not Too Early, Florence?
- Stuffy!
- Now Then! Notebook, Florence!
- The First Suggestion On My List
- Is This All You Can Bring?
- Beggin' Your Pardon
- Right! We'll Have Him!
- Interlude I
- Bounce Me High
- Shop! Hi! Albert!
- Meet Me At A Quarter Past Eight
- He's Much Too Busy
- Good Morning, Young Man
- We Bring Great News To You
- Isn't He Here?
- Quickly! Quickly, Come Along!
- Here They Are, Dears!
- I'm Full Of Happiness
- As Representing The Local Council
- My Heart Leaps Up With Joy
- Er-humph! Er-humph! I'm No Great Shakes
- Well Tried, Albert!
- Interlude II
- Albert The Good!
- You Oughtn't To Whistle!
- Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves!
- Is she asleep
- I'm Hungry, I'm Tired
- Give Me A Decent Murder With A Corpse!
- Have You Found Him?
- Fools! Fools! Blundering Fools!
- In The Midst Of Life Is Death
- Albert!
- I Can't Remember Everything
- Albert's Come Back To Stay

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opera Britten's Albert Herring Richard Brunel (stage director), Laurence Equilbey (musical direction) – With Allan Clayton (Albert Herring), Nancy Gustafson (Lady Billows), Felicity Palmer (Florence Pyke)

Richard Brunel (stage director), Laurence Equilbey (musical direction) – With Allan Clayton (Albert Herring), Nancy Gustafson (Lady Billows), Felicity Palmer (Florence Pyke)

Britten's Albert Herring Richard Brunel (stage director), Laurence Equilbey (musical direction) – With Allan Clayton (Albert Herring), Nancy Gustafson (Lady Billows), Felicity Palmer (Florence Pyke)

About

Feast your eyes and ears on Benjamin Britten's chamber opera Albert Herring, directed for the stage by Richard Brunel and coproduced by the Opéra Comique in Paris and the Opéra de Rouen Normandie. Inspired by Guy de Maupassant's novella Le Rosier de Madame Husson, this work paints a vivid portrait of the young title character, alternately praised and scorned by a self-righteous, youth-fearing society whose hypocrisy becomes the object of Britten's trenchant wit.

Richard Brunel | Stage director
Marc Lainé | Scenography
Claire Risterucci | Costumes
Mathias Roche | Lighting

Allan Clayton | Actor (Albert Herring)
Nancy Gustafson | Actress (Lady Billows)
Felicity Palmer | Actress (Florence Pyke)
Hanna Schaer | Actress (Mrs Herring)
Christopher Purves | Actor (Mr Gedge)
Ailish Tynan | Actor (Miss Wordsworth)

Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Normandie
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine
Laurence Equilbey | Music director

Program

Benjamin Britten, Albert Herring
- Flor-ence! Tell The Midwife!
- Doctor Jessop's Midwife
- I Hope We're Not Too Early, Florence?
- Stuffy!
- Now Then! Notebook, Florence!
- The First Suggestion On My List
- Is This All You Can Bring?
- Beggin' Your Pardon
- Right! We'll Have Him!
- Interlude I
- Bounce Me High
- Shop! Hi! Albert!
- Meet Me At A Quarter Past Eight
- He's Much Too Busy
- Good Morning, Young Man
- We Bring Great News To You
- Isn't He Here?
- Quickly! Quickly, Come Along!
- Here They Are, Dears!
- I'm Full Of Happiness
- As Representing The Local Council
- My Heart Leaps Up With Joy
- Er-humph! Er-humph! I'm No Great Shakes
- Well Tried, Albert!
- Interlude II
- Albert The Good!
- You Oughtn't To Whistle!
- Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves!
- Is she asleep
- I'm Hungry, I'm Tired
- Give Me A Decent Murder With A Corpse!
- Have You Found Him?
- Fools! Fools! Blundering Fools!
- In The Midst Of Life Is Death
- Albert!
- I Can't Remember Everything
- Albert's Come Back To Stay