The read
It runs long at 2h 44m.
Synopsis
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.
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Key crew
- William PlomerWriter
- Lytton StracheyWriter
- Stéphane LebardDirector
Cast
- 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
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Themes
opera