Gloriana
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Music
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
Sarah WalkerQueen Elizabeth I
Anthony Rolfe JohnsonRobert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Jean RigbyFrances, Countess of Essex
Neil HowlettCharles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Elizabeth VaughanPenelope, Lady Rich
Alan OpieSir Robert Cecil
Richard van AllenSir Walter Raleigh
Malcolm DonnellyHenry Cuffe
Lynda RussellLady-in-Waiting
Norman BaileyA Blind Ballad Singer
Dennis WicksThe Recorder of Norwich
Shelagh SquiresA Housewife