Central to the Royal Opera's centenary celebrations marking the birth of Benjamin Britten was Richard Jones' witty and insightful new production of the royal operatic pageant that Britten wrote to honour the Coronation, exploring the late life, love and death of Queen Elizabeth I.

With powerfully characterised performances by Susan Bullock as Queen Elizabeth and Toby Spence as the dashing and treacherous Earl of Essex, Gloriana is revealed as at once a celebration and a tragedy.

Cast:
- Queen Elizabeth I: Susan Bullock
- Earl of Essex: Toby Spence
- Countess of Essex: Patricia Bardon
- Lord Mountjoy: Mark Stone
- Lady Rich: Kate Royal
- Sir Robert Cecil: Jeremy Carpenter
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Clive Bayley
- Ballad Singer: Brindley Sherratt

Director: Richard Jones

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, June 2013

"[Director, Richard Jones] paints the picture with a delicate brush and an affectionate humour which also allows deeper emotion to shine through: his staging of the apotheosis in which reality dissolves into a hallucinatory newsreel is both moving and surprising..." - The Daily Telegraph

"what performances we get: Susan Bullock is an awe-inspiring Gloriana - imperious, perverse, tormented – while Toby Spence, as Essex, has regained all his pristine vocal lustre" - The Independent

Running time: 180 minutes
Subtitles EN/FR/DE/JP/KO (ES AND IT TBC)
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS