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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  David McVicar
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  Stéphane Lebard

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  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
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  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
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  Sam Furness
  The Spirit of the Masque
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  Àlex Sanmartí
  The City Crier
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  Scott Wilde
  The Recorder of Norwhich
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  Itxaro Mentxaka
  A Housewife
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  Gerardo Lopez
  The Master of Ceremonies
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  Dan Thomas
  Vihuela