There are few stages the world over more iconic than the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville’s “Mother Church of Country Music.” London’s Royal Albert Hall is one of them. And with a capacity of 5,272, it’s more than twice the size. British fans of country music filled every one of those seats Friday night when, just 100 years into its existence, the Grand Ole Opry made its international debut, with a revue taped for an Oct. 4 broadcast on BBC 2, featuring Opry members Marty Stuart, Luke Combs , Ashley McBryde , Carley Pearce, and Darius Rucker , and kindred spirits from across the pond Breabach and Mumford & Sons.

Each section of the famed hall had its handful of guys wearing snappy button Western shirts and gals wearing loud cowboy hats, like goths sporting black mascara at a My Chemica

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