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| Composer | Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976) |
| Period | Early 20th century |
| Year | 1953 |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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Second Elizabethan age receives a noble tribute in ENO's Gloriana
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When done as well as this, a "concert staging" is not oxymoronic, but a precise term for a valuable mode of presentation.
A landmark Gloriana at the Teatro Real
Ivor Bolton and David McVicar have teamed up to create an unapologetically Brittenian Gloriana, with Anna Caterina Antonacci at the top of a great cast
Elizabethana I and II: Britten's Gloriana at Covent Garden
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”.