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In the Suffolk town of Loxford, the May Day committee chooses timid greengrocer Albert Herring as May King because it considers none of the girls worthy of May Queen. After Sid and Nancy secretly spike his lemonade, Albert leaves town for an adventure. He returns the next morning, rejects the committee’s expectations, and stands up to his mother.
On board HMS Indomitable during the French Revolutionary Wars, the cheerful sailor Billy Budd attracts the attention and hostility of Master-at-Arms John Claggart. Claggart arranges a false accusation of mutiny. When Billy is confronted with the charge, his stammer prevents him from answering and he strikes Claggart, killing him. A court-martial sentences Billy to hang. He refuses to support a mutiny in his defense, is executed, and blesses Captain Vere, who later recalls his own failure to save Billy.
A sacred opera in English by Lennox Berkeley, with a libretto by Eric Crozier based on the Old Testament Book of Ruth. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
At Iken Hall in 1810, sweep-boy Sammy becomes trapped in a chimney, and the children rescue and hide him from sweep-master Black Bob and his son Clem. Rowan, the nursery-maid, helps the children feed and wash Sammy. They learn his family sold him into apprenticeship because they had no food, and plan to smuggle him away in a trunk. The children get him onto a coach bound for safety and freedom.
In the Suffolk town of Loxford, the May Day committee chooses timid greengrocer Albert Herring as May King because it considers none of the girls worthy of May Queen. After Sid and Nancy secretly spike his lemonade, Albert leaves town for an adventure. He returns the next morning, rejects the committee’s expectations, and stands up to his mother.
On board HMS Indomitable during the French Revolutionary Wars, the cheerful sailor Billy Budd attracts the attention and hostility of Master-at-Arms John Claggart. Claggart arranges a false accusation of mutiny. When Billy is confronted with the charge, his stammer prevents him from answering and he strikes Claggart, killing him. A court-martial sentences Billy to hang. He refuses to support a mutiny in his defense, is executed, and blesses Captain Vere, who later recalls his own failure to save Billy.
A sacred opera in English by Lennox Berkeley, with a libretto by Eric Crozier based on the Old Testament Book of Ruth. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
At Iken Hall in 1810, sweep-boy Sammy becomes trapped in a chimney, and the children rescue and hide him from sweep-master Black Bob and his son Clem. Rowan, the nursery-maid, helps the children feed and wash Sammy. They learn his family sold him into apprenticeship because they had no food, and plan to smuggle him away in a trunk. The children get him onto a coach bound for safety and freedom.