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Understudies deliver in a rollicking Albert Herring

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Reviewed at Sydney Opera House: Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney on 16 August 2013
Britten, Albert Herring
Opera Australia
Anthony Legge, Conductor
John Cox, Director
Brad Cooper, Albert Herring
Jane Ede, Lady Billows
Sian Sharp, Nancy
Dominica Matthews, Florence Pike
Elvira Fatykhova, Miss Wordsworth
Conal Coad, Superintendent Budd
Roxane Hislop, Mrs. Herring
John Longmuir, Mr Upfold
Samuel Dundas, Sid
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