The Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies production opened the thirty-Ninth Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings Concert Hall on 6th June, 1986 and received three further performances there on 7, 16 and 17th June.
The cast was: Lady Billows, Halyna Dytyniak/Margaret Maguire; Florence Pike, her housekeeper, Kathleen McKellar-Ferguson/Suzanne Vanstone; Miss Wordsworth head teacher at the School, Tracy Bounden/Tracey Chadwell; Mr Gedge the Vicar, Mark Moliterno/Mark Wilson; Mr Upfold, the Mayor, Colin McKerracher/Joseph Zuccala; Superintendant Budd, Alastair Harding; Sid the Butcher's assistant, Roberto Salvatori/Nathaniel Watson; Albert Herring from the greengrocer's, Peter Butterfield/Gerard O'Beirne; Nancy from the bakery, Sarah Fryer/Monica Zerbe; Mrs Herring, Albert's mother, Marilyn de Blieck/Jane Mitchell; the village children Emmie, Sandra Lissenden/Stephanie Pleasance; Cis, Nell Catchpole/Bryony Weaver and Harry, James Mair/Andrew Twite.
Members of the Britten-Pears Orchestra
The conductors were Steuart Bedford and Stephen Westrop
Libretto by Eric Crozier.
Producer, Basil Coleman
Designers Sally Gibson, Kate Johnson, Adrian Linford, Helen Morlewska, Teresa Wheeler (students at the Wimbledon School of Art)
Lighting Designer Roger Weaver
Company Manager John Owen assisted by Penelope Sydenham; Stage Manager Philip Schneidman assisted by Mark Kemball;
Repetiteurs Richard Balcombe and Pamela Lidiard
Wardrobe Mistress Susan Iles
Technical Manager Bob Ling
4 photographs
Black and white
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PHPN-1-12
