Gloriana
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.
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Cast
Queen Elizabeth I
Anna Caterina AntonacciRobert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Leonardo CapalboFrances, Countess of Essex
Paula MurrihyCharles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Duncan RockPenelope, Lady Rich
Sophie BevanSir Robert Cecil
Leigh MelroseSir Walter Raleigh
David SoarHenry Cuffe
Benedict NelsonA Lady-in-Waiting
Elena CoponsA Blind Ballad-Singer
James Creswell
Anna Caterina AntonacciRobert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Leonardo CapalboFrances, Countess of Essex
Paula MurrihyCharles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Duncan RockPenelope, Lady Rich
Sophie BevanSir Robert Cecil
Leigh MelroseSir Walter Raleigh
David SoarHenry Cuffe
Benedict NelsonA Lady-in-Waiting
Elena CoponsA Blind Ballad-Singer
James Creswell
