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Gloriana

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0.0·2018·2h 44m

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:...

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Cast

Anna Caterina Antonacci

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

Leigh Melrose

Sir Robert Cecil

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David Soar

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Benedict Nelson

Henry Cuffe

DIRECTOR

Stéphane Lebard

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.