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Production photographs of Britten's opera Albert Herring

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Production photographs of Britten's opera Albert Herring

Date1947

DescriptionThe production opened officially at Glyndebourne on 20th June, 1947 and received eight further performances there on 20, 23, 25, 28th June and 1, 4, 8, 10 and 12 July. A Dress Rehearsal was given on Wednesday 18 June before an invited audience.
In 1949 this production was photographed in Copenhagen, in 1951 at the City of London Festival, in 1953 at Wiesbaden and in 1957 at a Gala performance at the Jubilee Hall Aldeburgh, in the presence of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, to celebrate the Tenth Aldeburgh Festival. The later performances have slight differences of scenery and costume.
The original cast was: Lady Billows, Joan Cross; Florence Pike, her housekeeper, Gladys Parr; Miss Wordsworth head teacher at the School, Margaret Ritchie; Mr Gedge the Vicar, William Parsons; Mr Upfold, the Mayor, Roy Ashton; Superintendant Budd, Norman Lumsden; Sid the Butcher's assistant, Frederick Sharp; Albert Herring from the greengrocer's, Peter Pears; Nancy from the bakery, Nancy Evans; Mrs Herring, Albert's mother, Betsy de la Porte; the village children Emmie, Lesley Duff; Cis, Anne Sharp and Harry, David Spenser.
In later performances Max Worthley was Albert; Victoria Sladen, Lady Billows; Marjorie Thomas, Nancy; Otakar Kraus and Bruce Boyce, the Vicar; Roy Ashton and Andrew Gold, The Mayor; Tatiana Preston/April Cantelo, Miss Wordsworth; Denis Dowling/Roderick Jones, Sid; Catherine Lawson, Mrs Herring; Doreen Orme/Anne Dowdall, Emmie; Monica Garrod/Elisabeth Parry/Ellen Dales, Cissie Woodger; Alan Thompson/Richard Tovell/Stanley Mallett, Harold Wood.
The English Opera Group Orchestra
The conductor for the first performances was the composer and for later ones Norman del Mar
Libretto by Eric Crozier.
Scenery and Costumes: John Piper. Producer, Frederick Ashton

Extent114 photographs

Physical DescriptionBlack and white

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Item	PHPN/1/1/1	Rehearsal photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/2	Rehearsal photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/3	Rehearsal photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/4	Rehearsal photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/5	Rehearsal photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/6	Rehearsal photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/7	Rehearsal photograph of Britten and Ashton directing the opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/8	Rehearsal photograph of Britten and Ashton directing the opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/9	Rehearsal photograph of Britten and Ashton directing the opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/10	Rehearsal photograph of Britten and Ashton directing the opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/11	Rehearsal photograph of Britten and Ashton directing the opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/12	Rehearsal photograph of Britten and Ashton directing the opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/13	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/14	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/15	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/16	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/17	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/18	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/19	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/20	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/21	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/22	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/23	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/24	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/25	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jul 1947-Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/26	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/27	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/28	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/29	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jul 1947-Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/30	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/31	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/32	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/33	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/34	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/35	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/36	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/37	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/38	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/39	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/40	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/41	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/42	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/43	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/44	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/45	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/46	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/47	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/48	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/49	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/50	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/51	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/52	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/53	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/54	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/55	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengroceery	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/56	Portrait photograph of Joan Cross as Lady Billows in Britten's opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/57	Posed photograph of Joan Cross as Lady Billows in Britten's opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/58	Posed photograph of Joan Cross as Lady Billows in Britten's opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/59	Photograph of preliminary for the Drop Curtain for Britten's opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/60	Photograph of the Drop Curtain for Britten's opera Albert Herring	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/61	Photograph of the scene setting for Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/62	Photograph of the model for Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2, Act II scene 2 and Act III	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/63	Photograph of the model for Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2, Act II scene 2 and Act III	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/64	Photograph of the model for Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/65	Photograph of the scene setting for Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/66	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Sep 1949
Item	PHPN/1/1/67	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	Sep 1949
Item	PHPN/1/1/68	Posed photograph of Peter Pears as Albert Herring in Britten's opera Albert Herring	Sep 1949
Item	PHPN/1/1/69	Posed photograph of Gladys Parr as Florence in Britten's opera Albert Herring	Sep 1949
Item	PHPN/1/1/70	Posed photograph of Nancy Evans as Nancy and Denis Dowling as Sid in Britten's opera Albert Herring	Sep 1949
Item	PHPN/1/1/71	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	May 1951
Item	PHPN/1/1/72	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	May 1951
Item	PHPN/1/1/73	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/74	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/75	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/76	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/77	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/78	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/79	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/80	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/81	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/82	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/83	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/84	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	9-10 May 1953
Item	PHPN/1/1/85	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/86	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/87	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/88	Portrait photograph of Joan Cross in Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 1 Lady Billows' breakfast room	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/89	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengrocery	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/90	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengrocery	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/91	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act I scene 2 Mrs Herring's greengrocery	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/92	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/93	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/94	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/95	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/96	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/97	Rehearsal photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/98	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/99	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/100	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/101	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/102	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/103	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/104	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/105	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/106	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/107	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/108	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/109	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/110	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/111	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengrocery	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/112	Photograph of presentation of the cast of Britten's opera Albert Herring	14 Jun 1957
Item	PHPN/1/1/113	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947
Item	PHPN/1/1/114	Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act II scene 1 The Marquee	Jun 1947