Gloriana

2018

English

8.0

♡ 1

Action

Music

opera

Stéphane Lebard Director

James Creswell as A Blind Ballad-Singer

Àlex Sanmartí as The City Crier

Scott Wilde as The Recorder of Norwhich

Sam Furness as The Spirit of the Masque

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.