Gloriana

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)

Performers

The Royal Opera
Paul Daniel	Conductor
Richard Jones	Director
Susan Bullock	Soprano	Elizabeth I
Toby Spence	Tenor	Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Patricia Bardon	Mezzo-soprano	Frances, Countess of Essex
Mark Stone	Baritone	Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Kate Royal	Soprano	Penelope, Lady Rich
Peter Coleman-Wright	Baritone	Sir Robert Cecil
Clive Bayley	Bass	Sir Walter Raleigh
Benjamin Bevan	Baritone	Henry Cuffe
Brindley Sherratt	Bass	A blind ballad singer

Reviews of Gloriana directed by Richard Jones

****1

Hamburgische Staatsoper: Main Hall, March 2013

Map

Elizabethana I and II: Britten's Gloriana at Covent Garden

David Karlin, 4th July

Of the various themes that make up Britten’s Gloriana, written to celebrate the coronation in 1953 and being given a rare outing at Covent Garden to mark the work’s 60th anniversary and Britten’s 100th, the most effective by far is a sort of operatic expansion of Shakespeare’s line “uneasy lies the head that wears the crown”.

***11