Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Britten's coronation opera revived after 60 years

In this photo taken on Monday June 17, 2013 and released on Thursday June 20, 2013 by the Royal Opera House, Susan Bullock as Queen Elizabeth I takes center stage during the Royal Opera House Covent Garden production of Gloriana in London. Gloriana is back in a new production by Richard Jones that the company's director, Kasper Holten, notes commemorates a triple anniversary: 60 years since the coronation and the opera's premiere and 100 years since the composer's birth. (AP Photo/Clive Barda, Royal Opera House) LONDON (AP) — The Earl of Harewood may have been exaggerating when he described the premiere of "Gloriana" as "one of the great disasters of operatic history."








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