LA Opera: Albert Herring

It is spring in a bucolic English country village, the season for the May Festival committee to choose a May Queen from the lovely village girls. Disastrously, no maiden of sufficient virtue can be found, so Albert Herring, a meek mama's boy, reluctantly becomes Loxford's first May King. But when his friends surreptitiously ply him with liquid courage at the coronation ceremony, Albert breaks out of his shell with a drunken spree that scandalizes the village busybodies.