Released:
2018-01-01

Overview:
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.

Director:
Stéphane Lebard

Runtime:
2h 44min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  Anna Caterina Antonacci
  as
  Queen Elizabeth I
• 
  Leonardo Capalbo
  as
  Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
• 
  Paula Murrihy
  as
  Frances, Countess of Essex
• 
  Duncan Rock
  as
  Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
• 
  Sophie Bevan
  as
  Penelope, Lady Rich