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.
Director and 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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