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.
- Created by
- Stéphane Lebard
- Origin
- US
Cast
Anna Caterina AntonacciQueen Elizabeth I- Leonardo CapalboRobert Devereux, Earl of Essex
- Paula MurrihyFrances, Countess of Essex
- Duncan RockCharles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
- Sophie BevanPenelope, Lady Rich
Leigh MelroseSir Robert Cecil- David SoarSir Walter Raleigh
- Benedict NelsonHenry Cuffe
- Elena CoponsA Lady-in-Waiting
- James CreswellA Blind Ballad-Singer
