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.
Top Cast

Anna Caterina Antonacci
as Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I
Leonardo Capalbo
as Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Paula Murrihy
as Frances, Countess of Essex
Frances, Countess of Essex
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