Gloriana
1984
2h 26m
Music
Overview
Gloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History It was written to mark the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Director
Derek Bailey
Top Cast
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Sarah Walker
Queen Elizabeth I
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Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Jean Rigby
Frances, Countess of Essex
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Neil Howlett
Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
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Elizabeth Vaughan
Penelope, Lady Rich
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Alan Opie
Sir Robert Cecil
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Richard van Allen
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Malcolm Donnelly
Henry Cuffe
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Lynda Russell
Lady-in-Waiting
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Norman Bailey
A Blind Ballad Singer
