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ReferencePHPN/1/1/53

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, Miss Wordsworth (Margaret Ritchie), Superintendant Budd (Norman Lumsden), Lady Billows (Joan Cross), Florence (Gladys Parr), The Vicar (William Parsons), the Mayor (Roy Ashton), Mrs Herring (Betsy de la Porte) facing these are: Sid (Frederick Sharp), Albert (Peter Pears) and Nancy (Nancy Evans) as the Loxford worthies exclaim, 'Impossible! Drunk and disorderly? Our May King?'
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 20.7 x 15.8 cm

CopyrightHarvard University

Copies2 smaller prints

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