Gloriana (1984)
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.
- Released
- 1984-03-01
- Genres
- Music
- Runtime
- 146 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Derek Bailey, Colin Graham
Cast
- Sarah Walker as Queen Elizabeth I
- Anthony Rolfe Johnson as Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
- Jean Rigby as Frances, Countess of Essex
- Neil Howlett as Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
- Elizabeth Vaughan as Penelope, Lady Rich
- Alan Opie as Sir Robert Cecil
- Richard van Allen as Sir Walter Raleigh
- Malcolm Donnelly as Henry Cuffe
- Lynda Russell as Lady-in-Waiting
- Norman Bailey as A Blind Ballad Singer
- Dennis Wicks as The Recorder of Norwich
- Shelagh Squires as A Housewife