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.
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Anna Caterina Antonacci
Queen Elizabeth I
Known for
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Leonardo Capalbo
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
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Paula Murrihy
Frances, Countess of Essex
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Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Sophie Bevan
Penelope, Lady Rich
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Leigh Melrose
Sir Robert Cecil
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David Soar
Sir Walter Raleigh
Benedict Nelson
Henry Cuffe
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Elena Copons
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James Creswell
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Sam Furness
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Also in
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Àlex Sanmartí
The City Crier
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Stéphane Lebard Director · William Plomer Writer Lytton Strachey Writer
First release January 1, 2018
Production
Wahoo Production
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English
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English
Release dates
United Kingdom · January 1, 2018
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