Gloriana

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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Sarah WalkerQueen Elizabeth I

Anthony Rolfe JohnsonRobert Devereux, Earl of Essex

Jean RigbyFrances, Countess of Essex

Neil HowlettCharles Blount, Lord Mountjoy

Elizabeth VaughanPenelope, Lady Rich

Alan OpieSir Robert Cecil

Richard van AllenSir Walter Raleigh

Malcolm DonnellyHenry Cuffe