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    Albert Herring, Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten. Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was...
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    A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that...
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    presenting them throughout the country. Britten wrote the comic opera Albert Herring for the group in 1947; while on tour in the new work Pears came up with...
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  • The Medium (Menotti) Fidès, Le prophète (Meyerbeer) Florence Pike, Albert Herring (Britten) Gaea, Daphne (Strauss) Geneviève, Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy)...
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  • Albert Herring is a 1959 Australian television play based on Benjamin Britten's opera of the same name. It was broadcast live from Melbourne in 1959 but...
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    Paul Bunyan (1941) Peter Grimes (1945) The Rape of Lucretia (1946) Albert Herring (1947) The Little Sweep (1949) Billy Budd (1951) Gloriana (1953) The...
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  • (Thomas Adès) Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)* Nancy, Albert Herring (Britten) Nicklausse, The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) Octavian, Der...
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    Aeneas (Purcell) Berta, Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini) Cis, Albert Herring (Britten) Clotilde, Norma (Bellini) Despina, Così fan tutte (Mozart)...
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  • recently 35 years after its premiere, in August 2016. Hall also directed Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten, Cavalli's La Calisto, Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse...
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  • Panza in Don Quichotte), and 20th-century works (Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring), among others. Bernstein grew up with three siblings in Brooklyn, New...
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