KU Opera will perform “Albert Herring,” a comic chamber opera by Benjamin Britten about the life of a shy young man who discovers his independence only after going on a drunken spree and then returning to his hometown after being presumed dead.

Britten has composed many operas in addition to “Albert Herring,” including “The Turn of the Screw,” “Peter Grimes,” “Billy Budd,” “The Rape of Lucretia” and “Death in Venice”; he was also a film and symphony composer.

The performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Saturday, and Nov. 16, 19 and 20 in the Robert Baustian Theatre in Murphy Hall.

Tickets for the opera are $7 for students and $15 for adults, and they can be ordered by calling Murphy Hall Box Office at 864-3982 or the Lied Center Box Office at 864-2787.