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.
as Queen Elizabeth I
as Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
as Frances, Countess of Essex
as Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
as Penelope, Lady Rich
as Sir Robert Cecil
as Sir Walter Raleigh
as Henry Cuffe
as A Lady-in-Waiting
as A Blind Ballad-Singer
as The Spirit of the Masque
as The City Crier
as The Recorder of Norwhich
as A Housewife
as The Master of Ceremonies
as Vihuela
