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Article: DYNAMIC DUO STAGE COMIC OPERA 'HERRING' AT CCM.(Living)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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- February 7, 2006
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Byline: Mary Ellyn Hutton Post music writer
Albert Herring is not the 40-year-old virgin.
Benjamin Britten's 1947 opera about a young man crowned "King of the May" in an English village because a virtuous girl cannot be found might invite such treatment in light of the recent movie.
After all, it is a comedy, but guest director Nicholas Muni and scenic designer Paul Shortt are giving it an edge for the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's "Albert Herring," opening at 8 p.m. Thursday in Patricia Corbett Theater.
It will be the first collaboration by Muni and Shortt and the last production by Shortt as a full-time CCM ...