

January 1, 2018
2h 44m
EN
Stéphane Lebard
Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History. In her repeated clashes with the Earl of Essex-a longtime favorite of the queen who was ultimately put to death for treason-Elizabeth I is depicted as flawed and vain, human and sympathetic.

Anna Caterina Antonacci
Queen Elizabeth I

Leonardo Capalbo
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex

Paula Murrihy
Frances, Countess of Essex

Duncan Rock
Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy


William Plomer, Lytton Strachey
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Sophie Bevan
Penelope, Lady Rich

Leigh Melrose
Sir Robert Cecil

David Soar
Sir Walter Raleigh

Benedict Nelson
Henry Cuffe

Elena Copons
A Lady-in-Waiting

James Creswell
A Blind Ballad-Singer
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