Gloriana

Name: Gloriana
Director: Derek Bailey
Genre: Music
Released: 1984-03-01
Duration: 146 min
Cast: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jean Rigby, Neil Howlett, Elizabeth Vaughan

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1984 · 146 min · Music

Overview

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

Sarah Walker — Queen Elizabeth I
Anthony Rolfe Johnson — Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Jean Rigby — Frances, Countess of Essex
Neil Howlett — Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Elizabeth Vaughan — Penelope, Lady Rich