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ReferencePHPN/1/1/50

Artist / Photographer

McBean, Angus

Title

Production photograph of Britten's opera Albert Herring Act III Mrs Herring's greengroceery

DateJun 1947

DescriptionPhotograph of from left, Albert (Peter Pears), Miss Wordsworth (Margaret Ritchie), Lady Billows (Joan Cross), The Vicar (William Parsons), Superintendant Budd (Norman Lumsden), the Mayor (Roy Ashton), Mrs Herring (Betsy de la Porte), Sid (Frederick Sharp), Nancy (Nancy Evans) and Florence (Gladys Parr) at the end of the Threnody, 'That one so fine should live in vain And die so young'.
Photographer: Angus McBean (copyright Harvard University. Image provided courtesy of The Harvard Theatre Collection, The Houghton Library - see http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/htc.html )

Extent1 photograph

Physical Descriptionblack and white 20.3 x 14.9 cm

CopyrightHarvard University

Copies1 duplicate and 2 enlargements

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