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FULL Albert Herring Hamburg 1990 Winfried Mikus, Alice Burns-Harris, Gabriele Wunder
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Albert Herring  
- Composer: Britten Benjamin  
- Libretto: Eric Crozier    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Junges Forum Musiktheater der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Germany  
- Recorded: 1990
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
A chamber play, analogous to Mozart’s chamber play “Cosi fan tutte”, here depicting the frivolity of the people there in a different way, here a showpiece of the philistinism of England’s Victorian age.
A chamber play. Who knows what is meant by that, understands it! Not an opulent play with elephants and trumpets, but a subtle drawing of the characters in a play or an opera without much fanfare, a large choir or elephants on the st
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