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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

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.

External links

Albert Herring at IMDb

v t e TV productions of Christopher Muir
TV plays	The Proposal (1957) Dark Brown (1957) Killer in Close-Up (1957) The Duke in Darkness (1957) Last Call (1958) Outpost (1959) Black Chiffon (1959) Antony and Cleopatra (1959) Till Death Do Us Part (1959) Dinner with the Family (1959) The Astronauts (1960) Uncle Martino (1960) Eye of the Night (1960) It's the Geography That Counts (1960) Waters of the Moon (1961) The First Joanna (1961) The Rivals (1961) Quiet Night (1961) Marriage Lines (1962) Martine (1961) Boy Round the Corner (1962) Fury in Petticoats (1962) The Teeth of the Wind (1962) She'll Be Right (1962) Man of Destiny (1963) A Piece of Ribbon (1963) The White Carnation (1963) The Physicists (1964) Six Characters in Search of an Author (1964) Luther (1964) Nude with Violin (1964) Everyman (1964) The Tower (1965) Boy with Banner (1966) (not screened) Topaze (1966) A Ride on the Big Dipper (1967) Shadow on the Wall (1968) The Party (1969)
Operas	Amahl and the Night Visitors (1957) Fidelo (1958) Albert Herring (1959) The Bartered Bride (1960) The Secret of Susannah (1961) Il Tabarro (1961) The Ambitious Servant Girl (1962) The Prodigal Son (1962) The Consul (1962) Bastien and Bastienne (1963) Simone Boccanegra (1963) Peter Grimes (1964) The Bloodless Sand (1964) Martha (1964) Carmen (1965)
Ballets	Giselle (1959) Ballet Studio (1959) The Nutcracker (1960) Coppelia (1960) The Bloodless Sand (1961) Sylvia (1961) Caranval (1961) The Spider's Banquet (1963) One in Five (1963) Robert Pomie Ballet (1963) Hans Christian Anderson (1963) The New Horizon (1964) The Fir Tree (1964) Seven Deadly Sins (1965) She (1967)
Feature film	Libido (1973)
TV series	Lucky Colour Blue (1975) (TV series) Andra (1976) (TV series) Golden Pennies (1985) (TV mini series) Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1988)

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