Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: Albert Herring was reportedly dismissed at its 1947 Glyndebourne premiere as "not our kind of thing" - possibly because the sharp observations of Eric Crozier's libretto (expanding on a short story by Guy de Maupassant) on rural English life were too close to home. At any rate, the comedy of mummy's boy Albert Herring's alcohol-fuelled journey of sel…
SOURCE: The Stage at 07:09AM on October 8, 2012