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    Albert Herring, Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten. Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was...
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    A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that...
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  • Albert Herring is a 1959 Australian television play based on Benjamin Britten's opera of the same name. It was broadcast live from Melbourne in 1959 but...
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  • The Medium (Menotti) Fidès, Le prophète (Meyerbeer) Florence Pike, Albert Herring (Britten) Gaea, Daphne (Strauss) Geneviève, Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy)...
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  • (Thomas Adès) Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)* Nancy, Albert Herring (Britten) Nicklausse, The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) Octavian, Der...
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    Hall's 1985 production at Glyndebourne of Benjamin Britten's opera, Albert Herring, which was televised on BBC2. Tuddenham appeared in radio dramas including...
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    presenting them throughout the country. Britten wrote the comic opera Albert Herring for the group in 1947; while on tour in the new work Pears came up with...
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    Aeneas (Purcell) Berta, Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini) Cis, Albert Herring (Britten) Clotilde, Norma (Bellini) Despina, Così fan tutte (Mozart)...
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    Premiered on 12 July 1946 at Glyndebourne. Published by Boosey & Hawkes. Albert Herring, Op. 39: Comic opera in three acts, 137'. Libretto by Eric Crozier,...
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  • recently 35 years after its premiere, in August 2016. Hall also directed Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten, Cavalli's La Calisto, Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse...
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    Bloaters are a type of whole cold-smoked herring. Bloaters are "salted and lightly smoked without gutting, giving a characteristic slightly gamey flavour"...
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    Bergersen's "Threnody for Europe" Benjamin Britten's "Threnody for Albert Herring" Lou Harrison's Threnody for Carlos Chavez Toshio Hosokawa's Threnody:...
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  • Panza in Don Quichotte), and 20th-century works (Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring), among others. Bernstein grew up with three siblings in Brooklyn, New...
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  • Elisabetta, Don Carlos (Verdi) Fedora, Fedora (Giordano) Lady Billows, Albert Herring (Britten) Lady Macbeth, Macbeth (Verdi) Leonora, La forza del destino...
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    presenting them throughout the country. Britten wrote the comic opera Albert Herring for the group in 1947. Pears played the title role – one of his fairly...
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    The Turn of the Screw, Death in Venice, and even in the comic opera Albert Herring. Britten also employed the form in smaller vocal forms, such as the...
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    away from home, and it was while they were on tour in Switzerland with Albert Herring and The Rape of Lucretia in August of that year, that Peter Pears said...
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  • (22 November 2013). "Interview with baritone Roderick Williams before Albert Herring at the Barbican". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 July 2017. Team, i (30...
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    sang at the Glyndebourne Festival, in the Summer of 2002 as Nancy in Albert Herring and the next summer as Prince Orlovsky in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus...
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  • Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1944) Benjamin Britten – Albert Herring (1945) Aaron Copland – Symphony No. 3 (1946) Olivier Messiaen – Turangalîla-symphonie...
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  • in 1963, he sang the roles of Sid and Tarquinius in Britten's operas Albert Herring and The Rape of Lucretia, respectively. In 1971, Britten composed the...
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    for Mount Albert (94 games). Des Herring was born on March 18, 1915 in Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand. His parents were William Edward Herring (1891–1970)...
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  • Paul Bunyan (1941) Peter Grimes (1945) The Rape of Lucretia (1946) Albert Herring (1947) The Little Sweep (1949) Billy Budd (1951) Gloriana (1953) The...
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  • He played Harry in the first production of Benjamin Britten's opera Albert Herring. Spenser was a regular on television, with appearances in episodes of...
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  • Herring is a surname which may refer to: Aggie Herring (1876–1939), American actress Alfred Cecil Herring (1888–1966), Royal Army Service Corps officer...
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  • (1946) was his first example in the genre, and Britten followed it with Albert Herring (1947), The Turn of the Screw (1954) and Curlew River (1964). Other...
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    Paul Bunyan (1941) Peter Grimes (1945) The Rape of Lucretia (1946) Albert Herring (1947) The Little Sweep (1949) Billy Budd (1951) Gloriana (1953) The...
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  • as an Adrian Boult Conducting Scholar, Jenkins conducted Britten's Albert Herring and The Turn of the Screw. From 1986 to 1991, he was music director...
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  • Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Miss Wordsworth in Britten's Albert Herring. In 2014, she entered the Queen Elisabeth Competition and achieved second...
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    Productions since then include La Boheme, Gloriana, Cherubini's Medea, Albert Herring and Peter Grimes for Opera North; Dialogues of the Carmelites for English...
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