

Gloriana
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Overview
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.
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Keywords
opera
queen elizabeth i
queen elizabeth ii
britten
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Cast
Sarah Walker
Queen Elizabeth I
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex

Jean Rigby
Frances, Countess of Essex
Neil Howlett
Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Elizabeth Vaughan
Penelope, Lady Rich
Alan Opie
Sir Robert Cecil
Richard van Allen
Sir Walter Raleigh
Malcolm Donnelly
Henry Cuffe
Lynda Russell
Lady-in-Waiting
Norman Bailey
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