Albert Herring – review

Linbury Studio, LondonThe Union Jack bunting looks awfully familiar – and indeed, if anyone foolishly wanted to update Albert Herring then 2012 would be the year, with the Loxford May Day feast as an early Jubilee street party and Mrs Herring as the proprietor of the local Costcutter. But Britten's comedy was a period piece even when it was written, in 1947, and so it must remain.Britten's opera about a town where a shy greengrocer's son is elected King of the May in the absence of any local f...

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