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.

• Lytton StracheyWriter
• William PlomerWriter
• Stéphane LebardDirector

• Anna Caterina AntonacciQueen Elizabeth I
• Leonardo CapalboRobert Devereux, Earl of Essex
• Paula MurrihyFrances, Countess of Essex
• Duncan RockCharles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
• Sophie BevanPenelope, Lady Rich
• Leigh MelroseSir Robert Cecil
• David SoarSir Walter Raleigh
• Benedict NelsonHenry Cuffe
• Elena CoponsA Lady-in-Waiting
• James CreswellA Blind Ballad-Singer
• Sam FurnessThe Spirit of the Masque
• Àlex SanmartíThe City Crier