Claudia Waite
as Lady Billows (An Elderly Autocrat)
Britten's ALBERT HERRING
Opera North (Lebanon, NH)

"May Queen" aria

Albert's notification of his election to May King: L - R Claudia Waite (Lady Billows), Perry Sommers (Mayor Upfold), Luke Grooms (Albert), Cynthia Hanna (Albert's Mum)

"Modern methods, that's what we need!" Jessica Medina (Florence Pike), Claudia Waite (Lady Billows)

"Is this all you can bring?"
Claudia Waite (Lady Billows)

seated L-R:
Brandon Evans (Vicar, Mr Gedge), Meredith Hoffmann-Thomson (Miss Wordsworth), Wesley Lawrence (Mayor Upfold) and Damien Pass (Superintendent Budd)

The interrogation of Albert Herring (Matthew Nelson).

L-R: Meredith Hoffmann-Thomson (Wordsworth), Brandon Evans (Vicar), Cynthia Hanna (Mum), Wesley Lawrence (Mayor), Leanne Pettit (Florence), Damien Pass (Budd),
Claudia Waite (Lady Billows)

Photos by Carl S. Brandon