The title character is selected as May King in this man's comic opera Albert Herring.
The title character is selected as May King in this man's comic opera Albert Herring. The second act of one of his operas ends with von Aschenbach's confession of love to Tadzio, and he wrote the choral piece Hymn to St. Cecilia. Besides making operas from Death in Venice and Billy Budd, he adapted a George Crabbe poem into an opera about the fisherman Peter Grimes. This composer of the War Requiem wrote some "variations on a theme of Purcell" for some children. For 10 points, name this British composer of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.
The title character is selected as May King in this man's comic opera Albert Herring.
Edward Benjamin {Britten}, Baron Britten