Gloriana
2018
2h 44m
Music
Overview
Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History. In her repeated clashes with the Earl of Essex-a longtime favorite of the queen who was ultimately put to death for treason-Elizabeth I is depicted as flawed and vain, human and sympathetic.
Director
Stéphane Lebard
Top Cast
Anna Caterina Antonacci
Queen Elizabeth I
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Leonardo Capalbo
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
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Paula Murrihy
Frances, Countess of Essex
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Duncan Rock
Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
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Sophie Bevan
Penelope, Lady Rich
Leigh Melrose
Sir Robert Cecil
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David Soar
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Benedict Nelson
Henry Cuffe
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Elena Copons
A Lady-in-Waiting
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James Creswell
A Blind Ballad-Singer
