Category
page 1Operas about Elizabeth I
Maria Stuarda
opera by Gaetano Donizetti
Roberto Devereux
opera by Gaetano Donizetti
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
opera by Gioachino Rossini
Il castello di Kenilworth
opera by Gaetano Donizetti
Gloriana
Gloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History.
The first performance was presented at the Royal Opera House, London, in 1953 during the celebrations of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Gloriana was the name given by the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser to his character representing Queen Elizabeth I in his poem The Faerie Queene. It became the popular name given to Elizabeth I.
Le songe d'une nuit d'été
opera by Ambroise Thomas