Gloriana (1984)

Music

Overview

Gloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History It was written to mark the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Cast

• Sarah Walker as Queen Elizabeth I
• Anthony Rolfe Johnson as Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
• Jean Rigby as Frances, Countess of Essex
• Neil Howlett as Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
• Elizabeth Vaughan as Penelope, Lady Rich
• Alan Opie as Sir Robert Cecil
• Richard van Allen as Sir Walter Raleigh
• Malcolm Donnelly as Henry Cuffe
• Lynda Russell as Lady-in-Waiting
• Norman Bailey as A Blind Ballad Singer

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