Movie «Britten: Gloriana» [2013]

Original title: Britten: Gloriana [en]
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Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom the opera is dedicated. It had its first performance at the Royal Opera House on 8 June 1953, in the presence of The Queen then just 6 days into her reign. The centenary in 2013 of Britten’s birth prompted this new Royal Opera production, in which director Richard Jones uses the setting of a celebratory pageant in 1953 to explore the work’s alternating splendour and intimacy. This theatrical, inventive and colourful staging has at its core the symbolic reflections between the Tudor Elizabethan and the New Elizabethan ages that characterize the opera. The juxtaposition of the modern and the archaic in William Plomer’s libretto is wonderfully amplified in music that artfully fuses the sounds and manners of Tudor England – from lute songs to courtly dances – with Britten’s own distinctive style.
Genre
Music
Country
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Duration
2 hours 43 minutes
Release status
Released
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Actors
Elisabeth I poster

Elisabeth I

Susan Bullock
Earl of Essex poster

Earl of Essex

Toby Spence
Lord Mountjoy poster

Lord Mountjoy

Mark Stone
Sir Walter Raleigh poster

Sir Walter Raleigh

Clive Bayley
Sir Robert Cecil poster

Sir Robert Cecil

Jeremy Carpenter
Lady Rich poster

Lady Rich

Kate Royal
Countess of Essex poster

Countess of Essex

Patricia Bardon
Blind Ballad-Singer poster

Blind Ballad-Singer

Brindley Sherratt
Conductor poster

Conductor

Paul Daniel
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