Britten: Gloriana (2013)

ALL 06/01/2013 (en) Music 163 Min
  • Release
    06/01/2013
  • Production
    Royal Opera House, Opus Arte
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  • Original title
    Britten: Gloriana
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom the opera is dedicated. It had its first performance at the Royal Opera House on 8 June 1953, in the presence of The Queen then just 6 days into her reign. The centenary in 2013 of Britten’s birth prompted this new Royal Opera production, in which director Richard Jones uses the setting of a celebratory pageant in 1953 to explore the work’s alternating splendour and intimacy. This theatrical, inventive and colourful staging has at its core the symbolic reflections between the Tudor Elizabethan and the New Elizabethan ages that characterize the opera. The juxtaposition of the modern and the archaic in William Plomer’s libretto is wonderfully amplified in music that artfully fuses the sounds and manners of Tudor England – from lute songs to courtly dances – with Britten’s own distinctive style.

  1. Richard Jones

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Susan Bullock

    Elisabeth I

  2. Toby Spence

    Earl of Essex

  3. Mark Stone

    Lord Mountjoy

  4. Clive Bayley

    Sir Walter Raleigh

  5. Jeremy Carpenter

    Sir Robert Cecil

  6. Kate Royal

    Lady Rich

  7. Patricia Bardon

    Countess of Essex

  8. Brindley Sherratt

    Blind Ballad-Singer

  9. Paul Daniel

    Conductor

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Casts : 9 , Crews : 5

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Britten: Gloriana (2013) 163 Min

ALL 06/01/2013 (en)
Music
  • Release 06/01/2013
  • Production
    Royal Opera House, Opus Arte
  • Original title Britten: Gloriana
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom the opera is dedicated. It had its first performance at the Royal Opera House on 8 June 1953, in the presence of The Queen then just 6 days into her reign. The centenary in 2013 of Britten’s birth prompted this new Royal Opera production, in which director Richard Jones uses the setting of a celebratory pageant in 1953 to explore the work’s alternating splendour and intimacy. This theatrical, inventive and colourful staging has at its core the symbolic reflections between the Tudor Elizabethan and the New Elizabethan ages that characterize the opera. The juxtaposition of the modern and the archaic in William Plomer’s libretto is wonderfully amplified in music that artfully fuses the sounds and manners of Tudor England – from lute songs to courtly dances – with Britten’s own distinctive style.

  1. Richard Jones

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer