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.

Music

Anna Caterina Antonacci

(Queen Elizabeth I)

Leonardo Capalbo

(Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex)

Paula Murrihy

(Frances, Countess of Essex)

Duncan Rock

(Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy)

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 Masque)

Àlex Sanmartí

(The City Crier)

Scott Wilde

(The Recorder of Norwhich)

Itxaro Mentxaka

(A Housewife)

Gerardo Lopez

(The Master of Ceremonies)

Dan Thomas

(Vihuela)