2013
Britten: Gloriana
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Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom the opera is dedicated. It had its first performance at the Roya...
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Britten: Gloriana
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Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom the opera is dedicated. It had its first performance at the Royal Opera House on 8 June 1953, in the presence of The Queen then just 6 days into her reign. The centenary in 2013 of Britten’s birth prompted this new Royal Opera production, in which director Richard Jones uses the setting of a celebratory pageant in 1953 to explore the work’s alternating splendour and intimacy. This theatrical, inventive and colourful staging has at its core the symbolic reflections between the Tudor Elizabethan and the New Elizabethan ages that characterize the opera. The juxtaposition of the modern and the archaic in William Plomer’s libretto is wonderfully amplified in music that artfully fuses the sounds and manners of Tudor England – from lute songs to courtly dances – with Britten’s own distinctive style.
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Richard Jones
Director
Benjamin Britten
Writers
Cast
Susan Bullock
As Elisabeth I
Toby Spence
As Earl of Essex
Mark Stone
As Lord Mountjoy
Clive Bayley
As Sir Walter Raleigh
Jeremy Carpenter
As Sir Robert Cecil
Kate Royal
As Lady Rich
Patricia Bardon
As Countess of Essex
Brindley Sherratt
As Blind Ballad-Singer
Paul Daniel
As Conductor