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Nancy

• Voice Part : mezzo-soprano   Fach : lyric mezzo
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : a baker's helper
• Role Created By : Nancy Evans
• Arias : What would Missus Herring say?

Miss Wordsworth

• Voice Part : soprano
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : head teacher of Loxford
• Role Created By : Margaret Ritchie

Florence Pike

• Voice Part : contralto   Fach : contralto
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : the housekeeper for Lady Billows
• Role Created By : Gladys Parr

Harry

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : boy soprano
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : a village child
• Role Created By : David Spenser

Superintendent Budd

• Voice Part : bass   Fach : buffo tenor
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : the superintendent of police in Loxford
• Role Created By : Norman Lumsden

Sid

• Voice Part : baritone   Fach : lyric baritone
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : a butcher's shophand
• Role Created By : Frederick Sharp
• Arias : Tickling a trout, poaching a hare

Lady Billlows

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : spinto
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : an elderly puritanical autocrat
• Role Created By : Joan Cross

Mr Upfold

• Voice Part : tenor
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : the mayor of Loxford
• Role Created By : Roy Ashton

Cis

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : soubrette
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : a village child
• Role Created By : Anne Sharp

Mr Gedge

• Voice Part : baritone   Fach : lyric baritone
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : the Vicar of Loxford
• Role Created By : William Parsons

Albert Herring

• Voice Part : tenor   Fach : tenor leggiero
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : clerk in his mother's grocery store
• Role Created By : Peter Pears
• Arias : Albert the Good, I can't remember everything

Emmie

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : soubrette
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : a village child
• Role Created By : Lesley Duff

Mrs Herring

• Voice Part : mezzo-soprano   Fach : lyric mezzo
• Opera : Albert Herring   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : Albert's mother, owner of a grocery store
• Role Created By : Betsy de la Porte