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Gloriana

Benjamin Britten

Reviews (2)

BBC music magazine

2014 January

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Bayan Northcott

2014 January

"As Elizabeth I, soprano Susan Bullock works assiduously to encompass all the moods of this singularly complex character ... Other parts ... are finely done, and Paul Daniel paces the Covent Garden Chorus and Orchestra with conviction and flare".

The gramophone

2014 February

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David Patrick Stearns

2014 February

"In Gloriana, director Richard Jones takes a distracting 'meta' approach, depicting the mechanics of the performance (curtainraiser, prompters) in conjunction with the performance itself ... The idea is to recreate the opera's 1953 premiere. But the opera is not well represented on any level ... Toby Spence is the only cast member who seems more than reasonably engaged ... and the orchestra, under Daniel, sounds like it's in the next room".