Gloriana [SEP] narrative location
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
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