Albert Herring (film)
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Albert Herring is a 1959 Australian television play based on the Benjamin Britten opera. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[1] It was broadcast live from Melbourne in 1959 but recorded on tape and repeated in 1960. Star Victor Franklin had appeared in a televised production of Amahl and the Night Visitors.[2] Chris Muir produced and Clive Douglas conducted the Victorian Symphony Orchestra.[3]
Cast
- Victor Franklin as Albert Herring
- Kathleen Goodall as Lady Billows
- Anne Levin as Nancy Waters
- Lynette Martin as Harry
- Keith Neilson as Superintendent of Police
- Lorenzo Nolan as Mayor of Loxford
- Nancy Rasmussen as Emmie
- Justine Rettick as Mrs. Herring
- Neil Warren-Smith as Sid
- Wilma Whitney as Florence Pike
- Barbara Wilson as Mrs. Wordsworth
See also
References
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ^ "Three-act Opera On Wednesday". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 May 1960. p. 13.
- ^ "Advertisement". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 May 1960. p. 100.
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