Ivor Bolton, musical director of the Teatro Real, takes on the challenge of conducting one of Benjamin Britten’s least known operas: Gloriana. The work was a commission for the coronation of Elizabeth II, and its debut in Madrid was on April 12, 2018. After last season’s resounding success of Billy Budd, also by Britten, the English conductor will work alongside stage producer David McVicar to present a historical and unpleasant account of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
On this occasion, Anna Caterina Antonacci performs the principal role, portraying an Elizabeth who is trapped between her obligations as a queen and her tempestuous relationship with the ambitious Earl of Essex, Robert Devereux.
Opera in three acts
Music by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Libretto by William Plomer, based on the book Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (1928), by Lytton Strachey
Premiered at the Royal Opera House de Londres, on June 8, 1953
Premiere at the Teatro Real
New production of the Teatro Real
Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Artistic team
Conductor | Ivor Bolton
Stage director | David McVicar
Set designer | Robert Jones
Costumes designer | Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting designer | Adam Silverman
Choreographer | Colm Seery
Chorus master | Andrés Máspero
Children's chorus master | Ana González
Assistant to the conductor | Francesc Prat
Assistants to the stage director | Simon Iorio, Marco Berriel
Assistant to the costumes designer | Anuschka Braun
Stage fight | Jesús Esperanza, Kike Inchausti
Répétiteur | Bernard Robertson
Diction coach | Olivier Dumait
Cast
Queen Elisabeth | Anna Caterina Antonacci
Robert Devereux | Leonardo Capalbo
Frances | Paula Murrihy
Lord Mountjoy | Duncan Rock
Penelope | Sophie Bevan
Sir Robert | Cecil Leigh Melrose
Sir Walter Raleigh | David Soar
Henry Cuffe | Benedict Nelson
A lady in-waiting | Elena Copons
A blind ballad singer | James Creswell
The spirit of the masque | Sam Furness
The city crier | Álex Sanmartí
The recorder of Norwich | Scott Wilde
A housewife | Itxaro Mentxaka
The master of ceremonies | Gerardo López
Vihuela player | Dan Thomas
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