Gloriana (2018)

Cast

Anna Caterina Antonacci, Leonardo Capalbo, Paula Murrihy, Duncan Rock, Sophie Bevan

Overview

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.