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Gloriana (1984)
Directed by Derek Bailey, Colin Graham
Music · 2h 26m
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.
Cast
S
Sarah Walker
Queen Elizabeth I
A
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Jean Rigby
Frances, Countess of Essex
N
Neil Howlett
Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
E
Elizabeth Vaughan
Penelope, Lady Rich
A
Alan Opie
Sir Robert Cecil
R
Richard van Allen
Sir Walter Raleigh
M
Malcolm Donnelly
Henry Cuffe
L
Lynda Russell
Lady-in-Waiting
N
Norman Bailey
A Blind Ballad Singer
D
Dennis Wicks
The Recorder of Norwich
S
Shelagh Squires
A Housewife
Crew
- Director
- Derek Bailey, Colin Graham
- Writer
- William Plomer, Lytton Strachey
- Producer
- Colin Graham
Details
- Release date
- 1984-03-01
- Runtime
- 2h 26m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- RM Arts, Channel 4 Television, ENO: English National Opera