Gloriana
Music
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
Leonardo Capalbo
Robert Devereux, Earl
Paula Murrihy
Frances, Countess of E
Duncan Rock
Charles Blount, Lord M
Sophie Bevan
Penelope, Lady Rich
Leigh Melrose
Sir Robert Cecil
David Soar
Sir Walter Raleigh
Benedict Nelson
Henry Cuffe
Elena Copons
A Lady-in-Waiting
James Creswell
A Blind Ballad-Singer
Sam Furness
The Spirit of the Masq
Àlex Sanmartí
The City Crier
