Gloriana

0.0 1984 2h 26m

Music

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.

Directed by Derek Bailey

CAST

The people behind the story

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Sarah WalkerQueen Elizabeth I

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Anthony Rolfe JohnsonRobert Devereux, Earl of Essex

Jean RigbyFrances, Countess of Essex

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Neil HowlettCharles Blount, Lord Mountjoy

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Elizabeth VaughanPenelope, Lady Rich

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Alan OpieSir Robert Cecil

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Richard van AllenSir Walter Raleigh

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Malcolm DonnellyHenry Cuffe

CURATED SCREEN

Gloriana

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