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."

Cast

Anna Caterina Antonacci

as Queen Elizabeth I

Leonardo Capalbo

as Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex

Paula Murrihy

as Frances, Countess of Essex

Duncan Rock

as Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy

Sophie Bevan

as Penelope, Lady Rich

Leigh Melrose

as Sir Robert Cecil

David Soar

as Sir Walter Raleigh

Benedict Nelson

as Henry Cuffe

Elena Copons

as A Lady-in-Waiting

James Creswell

as A Blind Ballad-Singer

Sam Furness

as The Spirit of the Masque

Àlex Sanmartí

as The City Crier

Scott Wilde

as The Recorder of Norwhich

Itxaro Mentxaka

as A Housewife

Gerardo Lopez

as The Master of Ceremonies

Dan Thomas

as Vihuela

Crew

Stéphane Lebard

Director

Eric Genillier

Cinematography

David McVicar

Stage Director

Ivor Bolton

Conductor

Miguel Sáinz

Producer

William Plomer

Writer

Frédéric Allain

Producer

Benjamin Britten

Music

Stéphanie Dumesnil

Editor

Natalia Camacho

Executive Producer

Francisco Javier González

Executive Producer

Lytton Strachey

Writer