Albert Herring (film)

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
  • List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)

References
  1. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  2. "Three-act Opera On Wednesday". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 May 1960. p. 13.
  3. "Advertisement". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 May 1960. p. 100.


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