"is as certainly virginal as the girls are not: Albert Herring. Working at the greengrocer's, Albert is teased for his timidity by the easygoing butcher Sid. Sid's girlfriend Nancy comes in to do some shopping, and the couple shares a tender moment while Albert looks on. The lovers leave, and Albert reflects on his miserable existence under his mother's thumb. The Festival Committee arrives with the news of his selection as May King. Mrs. Herring is thrilled by the prize of ₤25, but Albert balks at being paraded in swan-white and mother and son quarrel to the mocking commentary of"
"Albert Herring 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 a successor to his serious opera ""The Rape of Lucretia"". The libretto, by Eric Crozier, was based on Guy de Maupassant's novella ""Le Rosier de Madame Husson"", with the action transposed to an English setting. After having composed and staged ""The Rape of Lucretia"", Britten decided he should attempt a comedy, preferably set in England. Crozier suggested adapting the Maupassant short story ""Le rosier de Madame Husson"" and transplanting"
"it to the Suffolk landscape already familiar to Britten from his home in Snape. Britten composed ""Albert Herring"" at his home, The Old Mill at Snape, in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947. He scored the opera for the same instrumental forces he had used in his first chamber opera ""The Rape of Lucretia"", intending it like the earlier opera for performance by the English Opera Group. The opera premiered on 20 June 1947 at Glyndebourne, conducted by the composer. According to one writer, the owner and founder of Glyndebourne, John Christie, ""disliked it intensely and is"
"a well, and the village worthies file in to break the news ""en masse"" that Albert's crown of flowers has been discovered, crushed by a cart. A lengthy threnody of grief follows, but is interrupted by the surprise return of Albert. He thanks the Festival Committee for funding his night out. They, in turn, are outraged by his tale of drunken debauchery and leave in a huff. Albert finally stands up to his mother and invites the village children into the shop to enjoy some fruit at his expense. ""Albert Herring"" is a musically complex work, despite its somewhat light-hearted"
"the goose at the Alpha Inn, a pub near the British Museum. Holmes and Watson set out across the city to determine how the jewel travelled from the room of the Countess of Morcar to a goose's crop. The proprietor of the Alpha Inn informs them that the goose was purchased from a dealer in Covent Garden. There, a salesman named Breckinridge gets angry with Holmes and refuses to help. The merchant complains of the pestering he has endured about geese sold recently to the landlord of the Alpha Inn. Holmes, realizing that he is not the only one aware"
"and his associates set up the English Opera Group; the librettist Eric Crozier and the designer John Piper joined Britten as artistic directors. The group's express purpose was to produce and commission new English operas and other works, presenting them throughout the country. Britten wrote the comic opera ""Albert Herring"" for the group in 1947. Pears played the title role – one of his fairly rare excursions into comedy. Reviews of the opera were mixed, but Pears's performance as Albert, the mother's boy who kicks over the traces, received consistently good notices. While on tour as Albert, Pears came up"
"subject matter. The text is genuinely humorous, and the score, while matching the text in character, includes myriad musical quotations as well as some complex forms. Like ""Peter Grimes"" and other works by Britten, this opera explores society's reaction to an odd individual, although, in this case at least, it is from a generally humorous and lighthearted perspective. Some of Britten's contemporaries saw in the title character a satirical self-portrait of the composer. There are five audio recordings of ""Albert Herring"" and one DVD recording, with the following artists: Notes Additional sources Albert Herring Albert Herring, Op. 39, is a"
"Shop. He also visits the McFeelys' house to see an old-fashioned washing machine. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X suggests a role he can play in the opera. François Clemmons demonstrates his camera to Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Clemmons asks to be a photographer in the opera. Rogers puts a puzzle together and sees how diamonds are cut. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday grants Yoshi Ito a part in the upcoming opera. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe stages the opera All in the Laundry. In it, Reardon plays a lowly laundromat worker who catches the eye of"
"'in-between-the-acts' short pieces. In the interval, two or three people would come on and do some other little opera by Mozart, Dibden [sic] and Purcell. ... We would travel all around the country touring for a week doing three operas a night."" In December 1947, Ashton joined Benjamin Britten's English Opera Group, understudying Peter Pears and creating the role of the Mayor in ""Albert Herring"". It was during the first tour of that opera that Ashton married Elizabeth Cooper. Ashton kept his hand in as a make-up artist in film, remaining a member of The National Association of Theatre and"
"counterparts. Later, during a shopping trip, Willbury and Arthur are surprised to find that miniaturised Underlings are sold to Ratbridge's women as the latest fashion trend. They visit Willbury's friend, Marjorie: an inventor camped at the patent office, waiting for the return of a prototype of her latest invention. When they return to Willbury's shop, the place is a shambles and the Underlings are missing. While assessing the wreckage they are visited by Kipper and Tom, members of the crew of the Ratbridge Nautical Laundry, soliciting customers. The Laundry is headquartered on a ship that became stuck in a canal"
"a shop in Bingtown. She is particularly skilled at creating beads and other small pieces, although she has been known to carve furniture. She employs a Six Duchies woman named Jek to guard her shop. Amber has golden skin, eyes and hair, and it is assumed that she takes her name from her unusual coloring. She often wears outlandish clothes and mismatched jewelry. However, she is an intensely private person, and she reveals little of her past. She finds slavery disgusting and seeks to free the slaves of Bingtown. She also befriends Paragon and convince Brashen and Althea to buy"
"brothers thus share their childhood flat, which is next door to the bookshop their father left them. Uninterested in the family business, Wilbur works in a nursery. Harbour takes care of the shop and meets Alice, a mother who sells him the books she finds when working as a cleaner at the hospital. When she is sacked for always being late at work, she goes to see Harbour to explain why she won't be coming to the bookshop again as she has no books to sell. Following his brother's advice on ""grabbing"" women, Harbour asks Alice to marry him. The"
"new labour-saving machinery for the mill which will enable him to lay off additional employees. Together with some friends he watches all night, but the machinery is destroyed on the way to the mill by protestors. Robert's business difficulties continue, due in part to continuing labour unrest, but even more so to the Napoleonic Wars and the accompanying Orders in Council which forbid British merchants from trading in American markets. Robert is very close to Caroline Helstone, who comes to his house to be taught French by his sister, Hortense. Caroline worships Robert. Caroline's father is dead and her mother"
"cotton to the government, quoting Calvin Coolidge's assertion that ""the business of government is 'business'."" The exact size of Minderbinder's syndicate is never specified. At the beginning of the novel, it is merely a system that gets fresh eggs to his mess hall by buying them in Sicily for one cent, selling them to Malta for four and a half cents, buying them back for seven cents, and finally selling them to the mess halls for five cents. However, the syndicate is soon revealed to have become a large company, and then an international syndicate, making Minderbinder the Mayor of"
"allusion to the ""Boar's Head Tavern"" from the play ""Henry IV, Part 1"" by William Shakespeare. Much like The Hog's Head, Shakespeare's tavern is the haunt of some less-than-reputable characters. It should also be noted that there is a second hand music shop by the name of ""The Hog's Head"" less than a mile from JK Rowling's residence in Edinburgh, Scotland. The shop was established four years before ""Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"" was released. A shop that sells and repairs magical equipment, Dervish & Banges is located near the end of the High Street. Gladrags Wizardwear sells clothing."
"and orchestral parts are all in the collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, at Lincoln Center in New York City. The original working title of the opera was ""Knights of the Hemp"". The setting of the opera is a small Parisian tavern, in the dead of winter, during the 17th century. A group of torturers meet, and compare stories. The mistress of the tavern listens intently as one of the men recounts how, years ago, he'd tortured a young man. Just before the young man died, he'd promised his tormentor that one day he'd return"
"the desk. Chumley and Fosdyke enter the flat, posing as gas meter readers, and advise Albert to take the book to an Eastern trading company for translation, where they lie in wait for him. At the trading company, they translate an address of a house in the country before Albert takes back the book and escapes. At the country house, Albert finds the owner of the strip club, Fox (Cross), Harry and a number of hoods running a trade in white slavery. Harry offers up his girlfriend Desiree to complete an order, along with six women chained up in the"
"works by night as the security guard. Everything she ""borrows"" from the store to live on, she writes down in a little book so that she can repay it when she finishes her studies. She has it all planned. But one day, she meets a guy outside the office of the owner of the department store. She thinks he is there to apply for a job, and Alfredo decides to play along. Although the owner is his father, he uses the name of his best friend, pretends to be poor and arranges for himself to get a job there in"
"goes on, the adaptation by Bart continues to play in both large well known theatres and small auditoriums around the world. Mr. Sowerberry Mr. Sowerberry is a fictional character who appears as a weak antagonist in the Charles Dickens novel ""Oliver Twist"". He is an undertaker and coffin maker who owns and operates a small dark shop in a small town some 75 miles from London. This shop also serves as a dwelling for himself, his wife, a maidservant named Charlotte, an assistant named Noah Claypole, and, for a short period, as an apprentice, the protagonist of the novel, Master"
"Then Alice's income from brewery shares disappears, along with the brewery, but Priam assures her that he can provide for her by selling some of his paintings. She is skeptical, however. Nonetheless, she sells some of his paintings, mainly for the frames. One painting passes through several hands and ends up with Oxford, Priam's old agent, who recognizes the artist's style. Oxford buys all of Priam's new paintings and resells them, guaranteeing that that are genuine Farrels. Oxford tracks Priam down and asks him to reveal he is still alive. It turns out that one of the paintings Oxford sold"
"the opera shares elements with fairytales such as ""Hansel and Gretel"" and ""The Town Musicians of Bremen"". Aninka [in English Annette] and Pepíček (Little Joe) are a fatherless sister and brother. Their mother is ill, and the doctor tells them she needs milk to recover. But they have no money. They decide to sing in the marketplace to raise the needed money. But the evil organ grinder Brundibár (of this figure Iván Fischer has said, ""Everyone knew he represented Hitler"") chases them away. However, with the help of a fearless sparrow, keen cat, and wise dog, and the children of"
"A bazaar for charitable causes is held at the town hall where the woman is to participate. He finds her selling wine, but in the presence of the man, and due to a long period of his self-isolation he is unable to speak to her. He leaves embarrassed. Later he learns that the women and man from the opera are to be wed. He runs into Schelling, who after some time notices his social degeneration and this time acts superior to him. He finally admits his unhappiness and recognizes his uselessness to society. At the end, he decides not to"
"and chessmen. The poet moves to a jewellery shop in the third stanza and asks the goldsmith what ornaments they manufacture. They reply; necklace, bracelets, anklets, rings, and continued to say that, they also make bells for blue pigeons that are tied to their feet. The bells are as delicate as a dragonfly's wing. Simultaneously they make gold girdles for dancers and scabbards for the kings to keep their swords. In the fourth stanza, the poet visits a fruit shop. There she inquires about what they are selling. They reply that they sell lemon, pomegranate and plum. Then the musicians"
"Poppy agrees with Mr Pellet that ""women were a nuisance in an office, anyway."" The book is set in the fictional town of Downingham, but in real life Dickens worked for the ""Hertfordshire Express"" in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. Dickens relates living in Bury Road in Downingham with a music school at the bottom of the road. In reality her lodgings were located in Highbury Road which still has the North Herts Music School at the end of the road. The glass roofed shopping arcade, stepped war memorial and market square mentioned in the book can still be found in Hitchin."
"and around the first English department store. The owner of The Paradise department store is widower John Moray. Moray was once a draper's boy in Emersons, the small shop that grew under his managership into The Paradise, which has come to dominate the high street to the detriment of small shopkeepers nearby. Into this world comes Denise Lovett, from the small town of Peebles in Scotland, whose uncle Edmund is one of the shopkeepers struggling to survive. Denise takes a job at The Paradise and is soon seen by Moray as a rising star, to the annoyance of Miss Audrey,"
"have a bookshop, and Herringsby on the Suffolk coast, a seaside resort and fishing village. The novel is a third person narrative, mainly centring on the thoughts and experiences of Margaret Pargeter. The Pargeters live on Holly Lane, near St Paul's Cathedral, where they have a bookshop. Robert Kerridge lodges with them while studying medicine. Though poor for gentlefolk, they have a comfortable life compared to many of their neighbours. The bookseller has somewhat radical views and stocks such controversial works as ""The Rights of Man"", which Margaret often feels impelled to hide from customers. Her brother John, who does"
"working in a small bookshop owned by a Scot, McKechnie. He works intermittently at a ""magnum opus"" he plans to call 'London Pleasures', describing a day in London; meanwhile, his only published work, a slim volume of poetry entitled ""Mice"", collects dust on the remainder shelf. He is simultaneously content with his meagre existence and also disdainful of it. He lives without financial ambition and the need for a 'good job,' but his living conditions are uncomfortable and his job is boring. Comstock is 'obsessed' by what he sees as a pervasion of money (the 'Money God', as he calls"
"business was failing. Jaime is arrested and Alfredo finally does his show in the canteen. Madame Santa: old seamstress in the neighborhood. She had a successful atelier where she made dresses for brides. She hates Alfredo's mother, because she has opted not to make her wedding dress in Santa's studio. Enrico: the sausage maker. He was hit in the head with a heavy object and was hospitalized. He knew details of the kidnapping, but the kidnapper had to silence him to avoid problems. Heitor Salvattore: known as the ""Iron Arm"" of the neighborhood, he's always seen in bars making bets"
"although it isn't. Officer Clemmons announces he has accepted a new job with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. King Friday and Queen Sara announce their secret: they are having a baby. Lady Elaine and Mrs. Saunders tie up Officer Clemmons in a frantic attempt to keep him from moving to New York. Betty Aberlin gives Rogers a black angel fish for his tank. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, she dresses up as one. At the Tree, she introduces a song praising Henrietta Pussycat. Mrs. Clemmons visits Rogers' television house with a poem about her new job title. Rogers"
"sewing in a sweatshop, while David helps Rachel, a widow, selling trinkets out of her market stall. Bella works at home as a seamstress; confined to the tenement, she pines for Ben. Ben pretended that he had a wealthy uncle who would provide for him, but in reality, he has no uncle and works in a cigar factory. Avram, though an educated man in ""the old country,"" hawks goods as a street vendor. Even so, the new immigrants remain upbeat (""Penny A Tune""). However, the business owners in the neighborhood are preyed upon by Mr. Rosen, a greedy man who"
"in case others might think ill of it, it would be as well that it should be seen to stop."" Britten dedicated ""The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"" to Humphrey and the other Maud children. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy was another friend of Britten. Fourteen-year-old Jonny ""could not help flirting slightly"" and was ""at once aware I attracted him"". Jonny and his siblings and cousins provided the children's names for Britten's opera ""The Little Sweep"". David Spenser was thirteen years old when he had the role of Harry in Britten's opera ""Albert Herring"". When he first went to stay with Britten"
"Keats visits Rogers to read his book ""Hi, Cat!"". In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a book editor visits Grand-père at the Eiffel Tower. Rogers sees Bob and Judy Brown's production of Jack and the Beanstalk. John Reardon comes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe dressed as an organ grinder. But hardly anybody recognizes him. Rogers tries on various moustaches. Betty Aberlin visits to put on wigs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday commissions a new opera. John Reardon gives opera roles to Daniel and his toy, Ino A. Horse. Chef Brockett displays the monkey costume he will wear. The Neighborhood"
"orchestra. The story relates the last few days of the life of Alban, a doctor in Verulamium (modern day St Albans) and family man who was martyred around 210 AD for sheltering a Christian priest and offering himself up to save the priest's life. The opera was described in ""Opera Now"" as ""a cogent chamber opera worthy of Britten's Church Parables,"" which ""betokens great expectations of composer and producers alike."" A Christian priest has been arrested as his preaching is not allowed under Roman law. Somehow he manages to escape. A lively market scene presents the community with its traders"