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 It was written to mark the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth I
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Frances, Countess of Essex
Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy
Penelope, Lady Rich
Sir Robert Cecil
Sir Walter Raleigh
Henry Cuffe
Lady-in-Waiting
A Blind Ballad Singer
The Recorder of Norwich
A Housewife
Master of Ceremonies
A Morris Dancer
The City Crier
The Spirit of the Masque
Time
Concord
Chorus