The Boston Conservatory Opera Presents Alberta Herring, March 31- April 2, 2005

BOSTON, MA. (Boston Conservatory Opera) - The Boston Conservatory Opera, under the direction of Sanford Sylvan, presents Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring Mar. 31 � Apr. 2, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. at The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., Boston. Conducted by Bruce Hangen. Directed by Kirsten Z. Cairns. Tickets are $12 general admission, and $5 for students and seniors. Box Office: 617-912-9222.

Britten's 1947 comic opera in three acts is the story of moral repression overcome by youthful exuberance. Young Albert is bullied by his mother into becoming the May King of Loxford when Lady Billows, the town's self-appointed guardian of public morals, decides that no girl in the town qualifies as pure enough to be May Queen. Albert's friends Sid and Nancy lace his lemonade with rum, arousing a little personal rebellion, and leading to his disappearance, assumed death, and reappearance, emancipated from social convention.

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